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Yo‑Yo Price Lift (Spiral‑Up) ✨
The Yo-Yo Price Lift (Spiral-Up) schedules a temporary price bounce: Flashpricer jumps your price to a target, holds it, then resumes your normal strategy — nudging the market price upward over time. A Growth-plan feature for Amazon and Walmart.
Flashpricer spikes your price to a target you set, holds it for the time you choose, then resumes normal repricing. Use it to reset downward spirals, test shopper tolerance, or lift the market ceiling — automatically, on a schedule.
What is the Yo-Yo Price Lift?
The Yo-Yo Price Lift (a.k.a. Spiral-Up) is a scheduled, temporary price bounce. On the interval you pick, Flashpricer jumps your listing to a target price, holds it there for a set time, then hands control back to your regular repricing strategy. The cycle repeats automatically until you turn it off — nudging the market price upward over time.
How it works
Each cycle runs the same loop:
Repeated over time, those short lifts can ratchet the whole market price upward — the "spiral-up":
Why use it
Set it up
The Yo-Yo Price Lift lives at the bottom of the strategy editor (for standard Amazon and Walmart strategies). It's part of the Growth plan and higher.
Tick the Yo-Yo Price Lift (Spiral-Up) checkbox in your strategy.
Choose how often the lift fires: 60, 90, 180, 360 or 720 minutes.
Pick where to jump (see the full list below). add / subtract also let you set a $ or % value.
Drag the slider to choose how long to hold the lift before reverting (5-minute steps). The hold can't exceed half the interval.
The first lift fires one full interval after you save; the cycle then repeats on its own.
The jump targets
Under Set to, pick where each lift jumps:
| Option | Jumps to… |
|---|---|
| add | The current price plus a fixed $ or % you set. |
| subtract | The current price minus a fixed $ or % you set. |
| set to min | Your minimum price. |
| set to max | Your maximum price. |
| jump to highest price last 30 days | Your highest price over the past 30 days. |
| jump to highest price last 60 days | Your highest price over the past 60 days. |
| jump to highest price last 90 days | Your highest price over the past 90 days. |
| highest price you have ever made a sale at | Your highest recorded sale price (you can set a date range). |
| avg selling price | Your average selling price (defaults to the last 30 days; adjustable via a date range). |
Good to know
- ·A minimum price is required. Without a min price on the SKU, the lift is skipped for that item.
- ·Your guardrails still hold. A lift is clamped to your min and max — it never jumps outside those bounds.
- ·Hold ≤ half the interval. The "Stay at the price for" duration can't be more than 50% of your "Every" interval.
- ·First lift timing. The first lift fires one full interval after you save — so with
Every = 60, expect it about an hour later. - ·Standard strategies only. The Yo-Yo Price Lift is available on regular Amazon and Walmart strategies, not on Amazon Business (B2B).
Frequently asked
Will the lift lose me the Buy Box?
Can the lift push my price below my minimum or above my maximum?
How soon does the first lift happen?
Why don't I see the Yo-Yo Price Lift option?
Open a standard strategy on Strategies, enable the Yo-Yo Price Lift, and let it spiral up. Questions? Email success@flashpricer.com.