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TLDR: You can create advanced discount settings to automatically trigger discounts for specific items, categories, quantities, or time frames, allowing for targeted promotional strategies and the ability to update discounts as needed.
1. Set up and manage discounts easily from your Square Dashboard or app, either manually during checkout or automatically for specific items, categories, quantities, or time frames.
2. Create automatic discounts for specific items or categories, set quantities, and decide availability for happy hour or seasonal sales.
3. Three types of quantity discounts: exact quantity, minimum purchase quantity, and buy one get one, which can apply to the same item or different items in the basket.
4. Set up a buy one get one free discount by setting the discount percentage to 100%, and enable set schedule for weekly discounts on specific days.
5. Create automatic discounts for specific date ranges and update existing discounts at any time through Square.
Full Summary
Set up and manage discounts quickly and easily from your online Square Dashboard or the square app. You can manually apply your discounts during the checkout flow or create advanced settings to automatically trigger discounts for specific items.
Categories quantities or time frames just keep in mind to create automatic discounts. You’ll need to head to your online Square Dashboard to get started visit items and then discounts click on create a discount and enter the discount details including the discount name amount either percentage or amount in pounds and applicable locations.
If you’d like to apply your discount manually. Click save if you want to set up an automatic discount so that items are discounted during a sale for specified timeframes or combinations.
Types of Discounts
Toggle on discount rules create automatic discounts for specific items or categories for specific quantities and decide if you want a discount to be available at any time or only certain times like for happy hour or seasonal sales if you select item or category when you add specified items or categories to your basket.
The new discount will automatically trigger and deduct from the item price create a discount that will automatically apply when you add items or categories and a specified quantity to a sale. You can set up.
Quantity Based Discounts
Three types of quantity discounts. Exact quantity when you add an exact item quantity to your basket. The discount will automatically trigger and apply to the item cost minimum purchase quantity when you add a minimum quantity of an item to your basket.
A discount will apply to all of the specified items buy one get one when a customer buys a specified quantity of an item or category. A discount will apply towards editions of the same item or towards different items added to the basket.
For example you can create a BOGO discount so that when a customer purchases two hats they’ll receive fifty percent of the cost of a scarf note.
Buy One Get One Free
If you’d like to set up a buy one get one free discount just make sure you set the discount percentage amount to a hundred percent. If you want your discount to apply weekly on specific days enable set schedule.
Time Based Discounts
When the items or categories are added during the specified time frame. The discount will automatically apply create an automatic discount for a specific date range by enabling set date range.
Automatic discounts can be used in combination. For example you can create a minimum quantity discount on a recurring basis or for a limited time by setting up the discount schedule or date range.
You can update an existing discount at any time by clicking edit purchase rule from the discount. Details page to learn more about creating discounts with square head to Square.com.