Merchandise Discounts

To provide an incentive for patrons to purchase merchandise, you can offer discounts on the items you sell. The discounts you configure and offer depend on the business processes of your organization. You can set up standard discounts, required purchase discounts, and quantity-based discounts.

With standard discounts, you can configure a basic discount that reduces the price of designated items or the entire order. You can also you can configure discounts that require a purchase to receive the discount benefit. Additionally, you can configure discounts that are based on the quantity of items purchased. For information and procedures that guide you through the discount setup process, see the “Discounts and Promotions” section of the help file.

In addition to setting up discounts to apply to merchandise, you also need to configure settings on the merchandise department record and merchandise record to control what is eligible to be discounted.

On each department record, the Discounts allowed on merchandise in this department checkbox is selected by default. With this option selected, discounts configured for merchandise can be applied when items from this department are sold. If this option is not selected, no merchandise within the department is eligible to be discounted. For more information, see Merchandise Departments.

To allow some items within a department to be discounted while others are not, you should leave the Discounts allowed on merchandise in this department checkbox selected on the department record and disallow discounts on a per-item basis. To do this, you clear the Discounts allowed checkbox when the merchandise is added or edited. For more information, see Add Merchandise.