How to Change Your Prices on Your TextMint Website

Supplier costs go up. A slow moving item needs a discount to clear. A popular product can finally justify a higher price. Whatever the reason, prices are probably the thing you will change on your website more often than anything else, and they should be the easiest thing to update, not the most annoying.

Why prices need to move fast

A price that is wrong for even a day can cost you money in both directions. Too low, and you are selling below what the item now costs you. Too high, and customers who know your old price start asking why it jumped without warning. The businesses that stay profitable are the ones that update prices the same day something changes in real life, not weeks later when the gap has already added up.

Changing one price on your website

The whole process is a WhatsApp message. Tell TextMint which product you want to change and the new price, something like “change the price of the blue ankara dress to 22,000 naira,” and it updates your live website for you. There is no dashboard to log into, no separate save button to hunt for, and no waiting for anyone else to make the change on your behalf.

Changing several prices at once

If your supplier just raised costs across a whole category, you do not need to message TextMint separately for every single item. You can list several changes together in one message, for example raising a group of products by a set amount or naming each new price directly, and TextMint will apply all of them in the same conversation.

Keeping your naira pricing accurate

Most Nigerian businesses price primarily in naira, and it is worth checking every so often that your listed prices still match what you would actually charge a customer walking up to you in person. A mismatch between your website price and your real price is one of the fastest ways to lose a customer’s trust, since it makes your online presence feel disconnected from your actual business.

A quick example

Say a bag you sell at 15,000 naira needs to move to 18,000 naira today because your supplier just raised their price. On a site built the hard way, that change might mean writing to a developer, waiting, and losing money on every sale made at the old price in the meantime. With TextMint, you send the new price on WhatsApp, and your website reflects it before your next customer even asks.

Good habits for pricing your website

A few small habits keep pricing from ever becoming a problem. Update a price the same day it changes in real life, not once a week in a batch. Mark anything genuinely out of stock rather than leaving a price up for something you cannot actually sell. And if you are ever unsure whether a change went through, just ask TextMint to confirm the current price on any product, since checking takes seconds and removes any doubt.

When you are not sure how to phrase a change

You do not need exact technical wording to update a price. Describe what you want in plain language, the product and the new price, the same way you would explain it to a person helping you in the shop. TextMint is built to understand a normal, everyday message, not a command you have to get exactly right.