> ## Documentation Index
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# Update a sale

> Saves the sale whole: send every field as it should be, not only what changed.

Needs the `sales.write` permission (Change Sales).



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json put /stores/{storeId}/sales/{saleId}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Shoply API
  version: '1'
  description: >-
    Everything a store's own server can do with a secret API key: its catalogue,
    orders, customers, marketing, finance and the rest of what the dashboard
    does. And the Customer API, which a buyer's own device asks with a token of
    theirs.
servers:
  - url: https://api.shoply.gg/v1
security:
  - apiKey: []
tags:
  - name: API key
  - name: Store
  - name: Domain
  - name: Payment methods
  - name: Analytics
  - name: Storefronts
  - name: Storefront code
  - name: Payment Routing
  - name: Custom payment methods
  - name: Products
  - name: Product pictures
  - name: Stock
  - name: Categories
  - name: Upsells
  - name: Subscriptions
  - name: Orders
  - name: Invoices
  - name: Reviews
  - name: Coupons
  - name: Coupon categories
  - name: Coupon pop-up
  - name: Sales
  - name: Blog
  - name: Search settings
  - name: Redirects
  - name: Sitemap
  - name: Cart Recovery
  - name: Email Marketing
  - name: Email Templates
  - name: Customers
  - name: Affiliates
  - name: Support Tickets
  - name: Blacklist
  - name: Fraud protection
  - name: Disputes
  - name: Finance
  - name: Tax
  - name: Expenses
  - name: Expense setup
  - name: API requests
  - name: Webhook endpoints
  - name: Webhook deliveries
  - name: Customer API
paths:
  /stores/{storeId}/sales/{saleId}:
    put:
      tags:
        - Sales
      summary: Update a sale
      description: >-
        Saves the sale whole: send every field as it should be, not only what
        changed.


        Needs the `sales.write` permission (Change Sales).
      operationId: sales.update
      parameters:
        - name: storeId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: >-
            The store's ID. A key reaches the store it was made in: `GET /key`
            answers which.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: saleId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The sale.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: tz
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            The time zone `startsAt` and `endsAt` are read in when they name
            none, as an IANA name. Left out, UTC.
          schema:
            type: string
            example: Europe/Berlin
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    What the sale is called, up to 60 characters. Buyers see it
                    on the storefront's countdown.
                  example: Autumn sale
                discountType:
                  type: string
                  description: A share of each price, or an amount in the store's currency.
                  enum:
                    - percent
                    - fixed
                  default: percent
                value:
                  type: number
                  description: >-
                    How much comes off: above 0 and up to 100 for `percent`, an
                    amount with at most 2 decimals for `fixed`.
                  example: 20
                appliesTo:
                  type: string
                  description: Every product, or only the ones in `targets`.
                  enum:
                    - all
                    - some
                  default: all
                targets:
                  type: array
                  description: >-
                    The products on sale when `appliesTo` is `some`. Each names
                    a product, and optionally one variant of it.
                  items:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      productId:
                        type: string
                        description: The product.
                      variantId:
                        type: string
                        description: One variant of it. Left out, every variant.
                    required:
                      - productId
                startsAt:
                  type: string
                  description: When it starts, as a date and time.
                  example: '2026-11-27T00:00:00Z'
                endsAt:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    When it ends, as a date and time. After `startsAt`, and not
                    already past.
                  example: '2026-11-30T23:59:00Z'
                couponRule:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    What coupons do while the sale runs. `rest`: a coupon counts
                    only the items in the cart that are not on sale. `all`:
                    coupons work on sale items too. `none`: no coupon works
                    anywhere in the store.
                  enum:
                    - rest
                    - all
                    - none
                  default: rest
                exceptions:
                  type: array
                  description: >-
                    Up to 100 coupons or coupon categories that `couponRule` is
                    turned around for.
                  items:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      kind:
                        type: string
                        description: What `id` names.
                        enum:
                          - coupon
                          - category
                      id:
                        type: string
                        description: The coupon or the coupon category.
                    required:
                      - kind
                      - id
                enabled:
                  type: boolean
                  description: Whether the sale runs when its time comes.
                  default: true
                showBar:
                  type: boolean
                  description: Whether the storefront shows the sale's countdown bar.
                  default: true
              required:
                - name
                - value
                - startsAt
                - endsAt
      responses:
        '200':
          description: It worked.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NoKey'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotAllowed'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Refused'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooMany'
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: javascript
          label: Node.js
          source: |
            import Shoply from "@shoplygg/node";

            const shoply = new Shoply({ apiKey: process.env.SHOPLY_API_KEY });

            const result = await shoply.sales.update("SALE_ID", {
              name: "Autumn sale",
              value: 20,
              startsAt: "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z",
              endsAt: "2026-11-30T23:59:00Z",
            });
        - lang: php
          label: PHP
          source: |
            <?php

            require 'vendor/autoload.php';

            $shoply = new Shoply\Client(['apiKey' => getenv('SHOPLY_API_KEY')]);

            $result = $shoply->sales->update('SALE_ID', [
                'name' => 'Autumn sale',
                'value' => 20,
                'startsAt' => '2026-11-27T00:00:00Z',
                'endsAt' => '2026-11-30T23:59:00Z',
            ]);
        - lang: python
          label: Python
          source: |
            import shoply

            client = shoply.Client()  # reads SHOPLY_API_KEY

            result = client.sales.update(
                "SALE_ID",
                name="Autumn sale",
                value=20,
                startsAt="2026-11-27T00:00:00Z",
                endsAt="2026-11-30T23:59:00Z",
            )
components:
  parameters:
    IdempotencyKey:
      name: Idempotency-Key
      in: header
      required: false
      description: >-
        A word of your own for this one change, up to 180 letters, digits, dots,
        dashes, underscores and colons. Sent again with the same key, the
        request is not carried out twice: the first answer comes back, with
        `Idempotent-Replay: true`.
      schema:
        type: string
  schemas:
    Envelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the request did what was asked.
        message:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: Words for a person. Empty when it worked.
        code:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: >-
            Why it was refused, as a word that does not change. Empty when it
            worked.
        data:
          description: 'The thing asked for: an object, or for a list its rows.'
        pages:
          type: integer
          description: 'For a paged list: how many pages there are.'
        total:
          type: integer
          description: 'For a paged list: how many rows there are in all.'
        meta:
          type: object
          description: Anything else the route answers beside the thing itself.
      required:
        - success
        - message
        - code
        - data
    Refusal:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          example: false
        message:
          type: string
          description: What is wrong, in words for a person.
        code:
          type: string
          description: What is wrong, as a word that does not change.
        data:
          nullable: true
        errors:
          type: object
          description: >-
            For `validation_failed`: what is wrong with each field, by the
            field's name.
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
      required:
        - success
        - message
        - code
  responses:
    NoKey:
      description: >-
        No API key was sent, or the one sent is not a live key:
        `api_key_required`, `invalid_api_key`.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal'
    NotAllowed:
      description: >-
        The key is real and may not do this: `missing_scope` (with
        `requiredScope`), `ip_not_allowed`, `account_unavailable`, or
        `dashboard_only` for something only a person in the dashboard may do.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal'
    NotFound:
      description: >-
        There is no such thing in this store: `not_found`. A store that is not
        the key's own is answered the same way.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal'
    Refused:
      description: >-
        The request was understood and not carried out. `validation_failed` says
        what is wrong with each field under `errors`; other codes are the
        route's own.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal'
    TooMany:
      description: >-
        The key has used up its budget for now: `rate_limited`. `Retry-After`
        says how many seconds to wait.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        A secret API key, made under Developers in the dashboard:
        `Authorization: Bearer shoply_sk_...`

````

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