Amazon-style deals for your Shopify store

No. Lightning Deals: Flash Sales is an independent Shopify app made by Movatech LLC. It brings Amazon-style deals to Shopify stores and isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon. Its earlier names were Lightning Deals & Discounts and Lightning Deals: Sales Booster.

Lightning Deals is free for up to 10 products in live deals. Paid plans are Starter at $9.99, Growth at $19.99 and Pro at $29.99 a month, or 20% less when paid yearly, each with a 14-day free trial. Every plan is a flat price billed through Shopify, with no usage charges and no share of your sales.

Yes, and it isn’t a trial. The Free plan covers up to 10 products in live deals at once, whatever the size of your catalog, with 1 live campaign and 2 scheduled. It includes Sale, Limited-quantity and Clearance deals, countdowns, the top banner in all 23 looks and the Deals page.

A countdown timer app shows a clock on the page. Lightning Deals runs the whole deal: it changes the real price on schedule, can limit a deal to a number of units, shows a sold bar on limited-quantity deals and puts back the regular prices it changed. Some apps do part of this, so check each app for these four things.

Create a campaign in Lightning Deals once: products or collections, the discount, a start and an end. At the start, the app writes the deal prices into Shopify and checks each one. At the end, it puts back the regular prices it changed. You can line up Cyber Monday and December behind it in the same sitting.

Yes. Lightning Deals schedules campaigns weeks ahead, for example Black Friday weekend, Cyber Monday, a December gift guide and Boxing Day, and each one starts and ends on its own schedule. The Free plan allows 1 live and 2 scheduled campaigns at a time. Starter allows 3 live and unlimited scheduled, and Growth and Pro have no limit.

The app’s Home shows the retail dates through New Year and which of them already have a campaign: Black Friday on November 27, 2026, Cyber Monday on November 30, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. After New Year you add your own dates, such as Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2027), Mothering Sunday in the UK (March 7), Easter (March 28) and US Mother’s Day (May 9).

Real prices. While a deal runs, the deal price is the product’s actual Shopify price, with the regular price crossed out, so it shows on product and collection pages, in the cart and at checkout without a code. Your own discount codes still apply on top, and the Schedule step warns you when an overlapping code would take a variant below cost (it needs your unit costs).

Yes, while Lightning Deals is installed. When a schedule ends or a deal’s units sell, Lightning Deals puts back the regular prices it changed. If a price can’t be put back, the store owner gets an alert. A price you change yourself during a deal is left as you set it, and Emergency pause in Settings puts every regular price back at once.

They stay at the deal price, because Shopify cuts an app’s access the moment it’s uninstalled. End or pause your live deals in Lightning Deals first. If a deal is live when you uninstall, you get an email with a file of your regular prices.

Yes. A Limited-quantity deal in Lightning Deals sets how many units of each variant sell at the deal price, and shows a sold bar. When those units sell or the schedule ends, the price goes back to regular and the product stays buyable. In a rush, a few more can sell at the deal price while Shopify updates it.

Use Deals of the day in Lightning Deals, on the Growth and Pro plans. A different product goes on deal every 24 hours through the campaign dates, and you choose how many are on deal at once and when each day’s deal starts. Shoppers see “Deal of the day”, the discount and a countdown to the end of that day’s deal.

Yes. The countdown ends when the deal does, because the same schedule changes the price. In version 2.0 the sold bar counts real sales only, Clearance shows no clock, and every visitor sees the same end time. To check a Lightning Deals countdown, open the deal page in a private window: it shows the same end time.

Lightning Deals keeps a Deals page for you: a Shopify collection of every live deal that you can link from your menu, emails and ads. You set it up once in Settings, and product pages link to it when a deal has ended. Home page sections can also show live deals, upcoming deals, a campaign countdown and a deal spotlight.

Lightning Deals works with themes that support Shopify’s theme app blocks, which are Online Store 2.0 themes such as Dawn and Horizon. You add its banner, deal cards and badges in the theme editor, with no code. It was tested on a standard Shopify theme; very old themes without app blocks haven’t been tested.

Yes, on Growth and Pro. A “Notify me” form in the Campaign countdown section on your home page sends sign-ups to your Klaviyo list, with the campaign name as the source, so your launch email goes to shoppers who asked. Signing up adds the shopper to your email marketing list, with consent. Lightning Deals doesn’t send email itself.

Lightning Deals works on international store URLs such as /en-ca/, and shopper text comes in English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch. It doesn’t set different deal prices per market, and the admin is in English.

Lightning Deals doesn’t calculate the 30-day reference price. If you manage it yourself, Settings can keep your own compare-at prices as the crossed-out price instead of the pre-deal price. You stay responsible for the discounts you advertise.

Its storefront code is built to a small size budget and loads deal data in one request per page. There’s no published speed measurement yet.