Manual Discounts requires Operators to manually enter the Discount for each individual Transaction as they are not pre-determined in BackOffice.
These Discounts can be applied to individual Items or to the entire Transaction in the form of monetary amounts or as a percentage of the price. Some examples of Manual Amount Discount types are - Item % Discount, Item $ Discount, Order % Discount etc.
Prerequisites
- Manual Discount is one of the two Discount / Pricing Function groups available in SmartPOS
- For an Operator to be able to use this function, the Manual Amount Discounts flag must be enabled within the Operator Maintenance 'Till Privileges' Tab
Using Manual Discounts
- Most Manual Discounts can be applied either to a single Product line or to the entire Transaction
- To utilize a manual Discount, the Operator will need to have an active, Non-Finalized Transaction
- Upon selecting the desired Manual Discount button, a window will open for the Operator to enter either the Percentage (%) or the Amount ($) depending on the specific Discount Till Function chosen
- If an Individual Product line is discounted, it will change to be in teal color
- When a Discount is applied to the entire Transaction, the Discount will appear as a line item beneath the Products within the Transaction Window
