Unique Quantity Discount Question

[sugarlab]

I have a unique predicament that I'm hoping some other F&B folks can come up with potential solutions. With the rising costs of ingredients, packaging and labor, we're wanting to increase our prices. Currently, all of our baked goods are sold individually, with no discount for ordering more. For instance, our cupcakes are $4 each, so a dozen is $48. Until COVID, we had a bulk discount, where customers would get a price break for buying 6 or 12 cupcakes. I'm wanting to increase the individual price to $4.25 but bring back the price break at 6 and 12. I want the dozen price to stay at $48 since that can already be a high price when people are buying multiple dozens at a time. I can do that for in store purchases, but I can't for online. We do a fair amount of pre-orders and occasional day-of orders through our online store. 

One solution I thought of was to have the price break for in store only, to encourage people to buy more of what we have on hand so we can more likely sell out at the end of the day (the goal for every bakery). But then I wouldn't be rewarding those that order ahead, which we always prefer so we have that guaranteed sale. I could figure out a way to reward those that order ahead, but not for day-of purchases since they can't get it online?  

Maybe there's another way to think of it? I'd like to have the price break for all of our items now, not just cupcakes like we did in the past. 

[larissa166]

On our website, we offer single bottles at one price and then we have a 6 pack at a discounted price. Our 6 pack only consists on 1 bottle of each flavor. If you want them to pick the flavors in the larger packs, you could try using modifiers? 

[sugarlab]

That's one way to do it for our pre-orders, but day-of things would to be managed with inventory so we don't oversell from what we have in store (since we'll have both in person and online sales)

[LukeNieuw]

The recent Square for Retail update solves this for you. 

Have you seen the article? 

Here's the link: https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Product-Updates/New-Retail-Feature-Sell-by-Units-and-Stock-Conver...

[lenjobakes]

@LukeNieuw We don't use retail and normally don't look for these updates but HOLY SMOKES this is lifechanging.

We basically stopped using online because it was SO TAXING to keep track of multiple inventories and what not.

My mind is 🤯

@sugarlab - our dreams are coming true and we didn't even know it.

[sugarlab]

Yea we don't use retail either since it was an additional subscription? But maybe it's worth looking into! 

[sugarlab]

I signed up for the free trial of Square for Retail and got excited but sadly it doesn't solve my problem. It works is people are buying 6 or 12 of one flavor, but most customers are getting assortments. It looks like that's not an ability right now.