Discounts

This article focuses on how to set up different types of discounts, update and manage existing discounts.

• Discount types
• Requirements & Effect

Discount types

Below are the four discounts types offered.

• Automatic discount
• Discount coupon
• Employee discount
• Registered customer discount

Automatic discount:

Discount items automatically without having the need to manually add a discount code. 

Discount coupon:

Discount items by creating a coupon code that can be shared with customers or on eCommerce website.

Employee discount:

Discount offered to an employee on the purchase of products sold by the employer.

This is excluded from an employee's taxable income provided it does not exceed a threshold amount per income year. Any discount exceeding the threshold is taxable.

Registered customer discount:

Discount items for only those customers that are registered.

Requirement & Effect

Requirement:

You can create the different types of discount based on the following requirements:

• Minimum quantity of items: Set a minimum quantity of items (2 or more) required to be purchased by customers to avail the discount. Specify if you want to include all or specific items to be eligible for discount.

• Purchase amount: Define the minimum and/or maximum purchase amount in order to receive the discount. Specify if you want to include all or specific items to be eligible for discount.

• Discount on any purchase: Choose whether you want to discount all items in the purchase or specific items only.

Effect:

You can select a desired effect to fulfill a specific requirement for the discount. 

Choose whether you want to define a new price for the item, apply a percentage or a fixed amount discount, use price lists with defined discounted prices or a free item where the free discount is applied to the lowest priced item.