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# How To Prepare For A Flash Sale
## Ensure your customers have a great checkout experience.
Having a flash sale is a great way to increase traffic and boost sales. Before starting your sale, make sure you’re prepared. Shopify recommends taking extra steps if you expect over ten times your usual daily sales within two hours or less.
Shopify’s third-party app developers, including Intuitive Shipping, are[limited by the number of API requests that can be submitted](https://help.shopify.com/en/api/reference/rest-admin-api-rate-limits#general-api-rate-limits). If you get a high volume of checkouts at once, Intuitive Shipping may stop returning shipping rates.
#### Get Prepared
- **Review** [Shopify’s flash sale documentation](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-online/flash-sales) for detailed advice on how to prepare.
- **Notify** [Intuitive Shipping](https://knowledge.intuitiveshipping.com/contact?hsLang=en). Let us know when your sale is happening and how many orders you expect. We’ll tell you if we foresee any issues.
- **Shopify Plus merchants**: Set up [Private App credentials](https://knowledge.intuitiveshipping.com/how-to-create-private-app-credentials?hsLang=en), then notify your Merchant Success Manager to request a temporary API limit increase.
These important steps will help ensure that your customers have a smooth checkout and that your sale is a successful one!
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