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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming up quick, so we decided to tackle a few needed Discount App features. Let's start with the simplest, and work toward the most amazingly cool.

The Zero Discount

In the past we stopped people from making a discount, that actually didn't give a customer a discount. This was to avoid screw ups and confusion, related to screw ups. But after much thought and pondering, we actually found a use for the Zero Discount. Let's say you made a discount called FREESTICKER, and told customers to put that in and you'll toss in a sticker. Well, in the past, this wasn't possible. You'd have to ask customers to leave a note. Blahhhh, that's dumb. Now with the Zero Discount, you can make a discount just for record keeping and fan/customer engagement!

Now you might be saying, "Hey, this isn't a new feature! It's just you correcting a platform limitation!" Well damn, take it easy. We were just whetting our appetites.

Scheduled Start and Stop

Here's an important one that's going to help a lot. Now you can schedule a discount code to start and stop at a certain date and time. Extremely important if you're running a Black Friday sale that starts at Midnight. Who can stay up till Midnight, nowadays? That's crazy time. Even if you could, you're going to need sleep so you can pack up all those orders you're going to get!

Feeling a little better about this update to the Discount App?

Discount By Product Category

Heyo!!! This is a huge feature. As you can probably guess, this new feature will allow you to apply discounts to one or more product categories. So maybe you'd like to keep a "Sale" category around all the time, and have a discount applied to everything that's in it. Then you can just go into products, and add the product to the "Sale" category, and bingo! The item can have a discount applied to it! Sounds pretty awesome right? Well it's even more powerful than you think.

A feature we've gotten so many requests for, can also be done with product category discounts. What if you had 50 products in your store, but only want to make a single product be available for discounts? In the past you'd need to mark every other one "Ineligible For Discounts". Blahhhhh, that's dumb too. Now you can create a category, hide it from your store, apply a discount to that category, and stick a single item in it! It's an incredible feature, that we're super happy with.

Be honest, you're impressed right?

Any questions, just send us a message!

We've been itching to make this announcement for weeks now, we have all new responsive themes!

We're going to be honest, this should have been done a long time ago. It's the only area that Limited Run was lacking in, so we're super excited to put this issue to bed. We've also signed on the great and talented Andrej Presern, to keep designing for us for the rest of eternity (aka a long time). He's done an incredible job on the new themes and we've already laid out plans for more.

To take the brand new themes for a spin:

• Go to your dashboard.
• Click "Storefront" > "Theme" at the top.
• Scroll down and click "Add" next to any theme you're interested in.

Thanks to everyone who's stayed patient with us while we worked this out. We hope it was the worth the wait!

In the beginning of 2009, when we started building the first iteration of our platform, we predicted that vinyl sales would be taking off in the near future. This is why we invented features like Cart Limiting, because we knew the world would need it one day. Nielsen just released this year's first half numbers and, as suspected, CD sales are in the tank, but vinyl says are up 40% over 2013's first half numbers. And it's been this way for nearly 30 quarters in a row. We think it's only fitting that we announce SoundScan Reporting!

Now obviously we're not just a vinyl selling platform anymore. We added an incredibly powerful digital system, as well as Bundles and VIP Tickets. All can be used in conjunction with our SoundScan integration. It even works great for pre-orders. You can start selling your album, and then after the release date arrives, we'll automatically report all sales to SoundScan.

You can get started by heading into our App Store and installing the SoundScan App. Here's a help doc on how it all works. If you have any questions, drop us a message.

We just released a few updates that should prove useful for people using our Custom HTML features.

Custom HTML Pages in Your Theme's Layout

The first thing we did involves creating a Custom HTML page (Storefront > Pages > New > Custom HTML). Now you can choose to have it rendered inside your theme's layout, or with its own custom layout. This will make creating a page, that blends right in with your theme, a lot easier.

Adding Files to Themes

The second thing we did is give you the ability to add your own CSS, JavaScript, Snippet, and Config files to your theme. And you can also delete non-required theme files. This is almost a necessity when taking on massive store/site building projects like Topshelf Records did.

Importing & Exporting Themes

The third, and last, thing we did was give store owners the ability to Import and Export Themes. If you're a designer, and you have a base theme you like to use for all the stores you're working on, or if you like to design using your own text editor, this feature will make that possible. Also, since importing and exporting is so simple, anyone can use it to move already customized themes to their friend's store, or if you're a label, you can use your theme for one of your band's stores.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to message us!

We just released three great features that will make your life a lot easier.

Change a Customer's Email Address & Name

This first feature lets you change a customer's email address and name, which can be done in the "Sales" > "Manage Customers" area of your dashboard. Also, if you change a customer's email address, to the address of an existing customer, all the order stats for both customers will be combined!

Resend an Order Confirmation Email

The second feature we just released lets you resend order confirmation emails. The cool part about this feature is you can specify the address you want the email to go to. This obviously works with the changing email feature, but it's also a great way to handle a customer who lost their original order email.

Order Action Menus

The final thing we did was clean up the "Sales" area a bit. With these two new features, it was getting pretty cluttered. Expanding an order made it gigantic, difficult to work with, and hard to scale in the future. We've now added an actions menu to the right of every order (that's the gear icon). If you click that, you'll see a whole slew of helpful features, some we bet you didn't realize we already had.

Learn More

To learn more about changing a customer's email address and name, check out this help doc:
http://help.limitedrun.com/articles/184-updating-a-customers-name-email-address

To learn more about resending order emails, check out this help doc:
http://help.limitedrun.com/articles/185-resending-a-customers-order-confirmation-email

And if you have any questions, feel free to send us a message!