{"id":22418,"date":"2023-03-24T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=22418"},"modified":"2023-03-24T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T10:08:17","slug":"permits-needed-to-run-online-ramadan-discounts-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/24\/permits-needed-to-run-online-ramadan-discounts-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Permits needed to run online Ramadan discounts in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nRetail establishments can issue online discount permits for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/24\/how-can-whatsapp-drive-retail-sales-this-ramadan\/\">Ramadan<\/a> sales, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s ministry of commerce announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry launched the facility enabling commercial establishments to issue permits electronically for the Ramadan discounts season, which starts on March 23 and lasts until April 21.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry clarified that issuing the discount permits for Ramadan will not cause the establishments to lose days from the annual sale balance.<\/p>\n<p>The service of issuing permits for seasonal discounts online will contribute to facilitating the process for merchants in a way that enables them to save their own balance of e-discounts.<\/p>\n<p>The system allows merchants to print permits to eliminate fake discount offers, as well as to create a healthy commercial environment.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales in Saudi Arabia and UAE are expected to increase this Ramadan, as compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The levels of enthusiasm about Ramadan shopping in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/10\/redseer-consulting-retail-spending\/\">Saudi Arabia and the UAE<\/a>\u00a0this year seem unchanged compared to last year, according to responses to the survey,&#8221; Redseer Consulting said.<\/p>\n<p>Online sales will increase as well, with overall planned purchases rising by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/10\/redseer-consulting-retail-spending\/\">14 per cent<\/a> during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers in Saudi Arabia also prioritise free shipping during the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail establishments can issue online discount permits for Ramadan sales, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s\u00a0ministry of commerce announced Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":22139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3946,2683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22436,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions\/22436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}