Draft & Publish Workflow
Dino Discounts uses a draft/publish workflow to keep your live store safe while you make changes. This is one of the most important concepts to understand.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”| State | What it means | Customer impact |
|---|---|---|
| Published | The live state — what your store is running right now | Customers see these discounts |
| Draft | Your working changes — saved but not live | No customer impact |
When you create or edit a discount, it becomes a draft. You can make as many changes as you like across multiple discounts. Nothing changes for your customers until you publish. Changes on the Settings, Message Settings and Countries & Zones tabs, and coupon settings on the Coupons tab, go through the same publish step.
The publish flow
Section titled “The publish flow”- Make your changes (create discounts, edit tiers, change targeting, etc.)
- A You have unpublished changes banner appears at the top of the tab. Its button shows what is pending — for example Publish changes — 2 Discounts, 1 Zone
- Click Publish changes to open the Publish to your shop dialog
- Review the What goes live summary — this shows exactly what will change
- Optionally fill in Version label and Notes (under Optional: label & notes for History)
- Click Publish changes
All pending changes go live at once. A snapshot of the new state is saved to History automatically, so you can roll back to any earlier one if needed. A discount that is still incomplete is skipped and kept in your editor; the dialog tells you how many.
Why this matters
Section titled “Why this matters”Safe experimentation
Section titled “Safe experimentation”You can set up a complex multi-discount promotion, check each discount in the cart preview, and only push everything live when you’re confident it’s right.
Batch changes
Section titled “Batch changes”If you’re updating several discounts (e.g., changing all your tiers for a seasonal sale), you don’t have to worry about customers seeing a half-finished state. Everything publishes together.
Audit trail
Section titled “Audit trail”Each publish creates a snapshot in the History tab. You can see what changed, when, and who did it — and roll back to any previous state.
Reverting changes
Section titled “Reverting changes”Changed your mind before publishing? Click Revert in the unpublished changes banner to discard all drafts and return to the current published state.
After publishing, you can restore a previous state from the History tab.