A handful of recent options for gross sales have come out at the moment! If you didn’t already know, any developer can host a sale on itch.io! The identify sale is a little bit of a misnomer as a result of lately gross sales received the power to additionally operate as bundles of video games. Here’s what’s new:

Sale Goals

You might have seen that the Devs With Ferguson Bundle, which raised over $11,000 for the Ferguson Public Library, had an fascinating banner on the highest of the web page with some public knowledge about how a lot the bundle has earned together with some knowledge in regards to the sorts of contributions it had acquired.

You can now use the identical banner by yourself tasks. This is completed by setting a financial purpose in your total sale. When you set a purpose, the cash earned in the course of the interval of the sale is made public on the highest of every recreation web page and on the sale’s important web page. Any potential consumers can see what your purpose is, how a lot time is left, and a abstract about how others have contributed. A progress bar can be supplied, displaying how far alongside you’re within the purpose.

P.S. When the sale is over the banner is faraway from the sport pages however stays on the sale’s important web page.

Sale Analytics

Since launching gross sales, one of many largest requested options have been higher analytics for gross sales. There’s now a model new web page with detailed analytics on the market purchases together with some numbers about how a lot the sale has earned.

On the sale analytics web page you’ll discover a number of various things. There’s a progress bar visualization of how a lot time is left within the sale. Both recreation and bundle (if relevant) purchases are browsable with the usual purchaser info and referrer knowledge. If your sale has any purchases a chart of cumulative earnings is displayed that reveals how a lot you’ve earned in whole over the period of the sale. On the the highest of the web page is a fast overview of the earnings together with common and max buy costs.

You can discover the hyperlink to the sale analytics web page subsequent to the sale’s edit button within the sale toolbar.

Enjoy, and blissful holidays!