13 Psychological Pricing Tricks You Should Try

What makes your product’s price more attractive to the customer? There are more components to pricing than the actual price. And due to human nature, changing the way you physically display the price can make it more enticing to the consumer.

 Thanks to the team over at Wikibuy, we have 13 sales-driving pricing hacks to share with you:

1. Display prices in small fonts
2. Show premium option first
3. Use bundle pricing
4. Remove the comma from prices
5. Price in installments
6. Offer three items
7. Position low prices on the left
8. Price depending on purchase intent
9. Price from high to low
10. Add visual contrast
11. Use words related to small magnitudes
12. End prices in “$9”
13. Remove dollar signs

With so many options, how do you know where to start? As with most changes, it is best to gradually implement adjustments versus overthrowing the entire system.

Pick a couple of tactics to try out on the same item. It’s important that you experiment with different pricing strategies on the same item. This way only one variable is changing at a time.

For example, let’s say a grocer features the prices of apples in a small font and the prices of bread without a dollar sign.

If the apple sales increased, but bread sales declined, you can’t deduce that removing the dollar sign is ineffective. Maybe a large part of the community decided to try a grain-free diet during that time. It’s natural for sales to fluctuate slightly. The best way to accommodate for this while testing pricing strategies is to run trials on the same products.

You can continue this testing method until you find the optimal way to display prices. For more details on the pricing hacks listed above, check out the infographic below.