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E-commerce vocabulary · Pricing and Promotions

Flash sale

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, flash sale means: A short sale, often lasting only hours or a day, with big discounts on selected products and usually limited stock.

In Turkish: flaş indirim, kısa süreli indirim, fırsat satışı

How it is used

Used by marketing and trading teams. Stores run, launch or announce a flash sale, often with a countdown timer and push notifications. Teams must prepare stock, servers and customer service before a flash sale starts.

Example sentences

  1. The flash sale starts at midnight and ends at 10 a.m.

  2. Our site slowed down in the first minutes of the flash sale.

Common collocations

  • run a flash sale
  • 24-hour flash sale
  • flash sale ends
  • flash sale prices
  • discount codeA short code a customer types at checkout to get a lower price, a fixed amount off or free shipping.
  • Black FridayThe Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, now an international shopping day in late November with big online and in-store discounts.
  • markdownA permanent or long-term cut in a product's selling price, usually to clear slow-selling or end-of-season stock.
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.

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