10/13/2026
Black Friday is 45 days away. If holiday planning is still on the to-do list, the window is getting tight.
The merchants who had an easy November last year finished the heavy lifting back in August. Their last six weeks went to testing landing pages and fixing small issues.
By now, the site should already be tested under real traffic, and email and SMS flows should be built and scheduled. Paid campaigns need to have been live long enough to generate real data.
Promotions should be locked in now, too. Waiting until the week of is usually when margins take a hit nobody planned for.
None of it is due today. But it gets more expensive to fix with every week that passes. A broken email caught in October costs you an afternoon. The same email breaking on Black Friday morning costs a lot more than that.
Not sure where your gaps are with 45 days on the clock?
Our latest blog covers what to prioritize right now: https://eystudios.com/2026/06/black-friday-strategy/.