Add custom blockout dates to your calendar in Happy Buyers to exclude sales spikes from holidays, promotions, or events.
Blockout dates allow you to filter out higher than average sales days from your run rate calculations to allow you a clearer view of your regular sales trends and more accuracy in demand for reordering.
Blockout date examples:
- Set one-time blockout dates for all sales during a store's grand opening
- Blockout sales from a specific brand and/or category for a pop up event like Wyld edibles
- Blockout sales for pre-rolls if you are having a major sale or promotion
- Apply an annual, recurring blockout date from 4/18-4/20 for all your locations for inflated 420 sales
- Exclude a day the store was closed
- Select multiple stores to blockout a local event date
How to set blockout dates:
- Launch Happy Buyers ↗️
- Make sure you are an Organization admin (reach out to the customer success team if you need admin access or want to learn more)
- Click the settings icon on the top right of your navigation menu and select Blockout dates
- Title your event and use the calendar to select the dates you want to block from impacting your run rates.
- Select whether this blockout date should apply to all stores or specific stores.
- Note: Selecting All stores will apply the blockout date(s) to future stores that are opened after the creation of this blockout date.
- Select specific brands and/or categories if you are having a sale or event and would like the sales blocked out of the run rates.
- Double-check that things look good and click 'Apply' to confirm your blockout dates. Blockout dates will be applied overnight and new run rates viewable the next morning.