We are excited to announce that discounts based on the quantity purchased like Buy One Get One are available for Beta testing. When qualifying items are added to an order, your discounts will apply automatically.
To join the beta, you will need to do two things:
- Make sure you have Square version 5.17 (settings > support > about) (
UseTestFlight and follow the instructions to download the beta app on iOS or Android - Comment in this thread so we can turn on the feature for you. Once we message back that you’re good to go, you can create your discounts in your Square Dashboard.
- Coming soon to Square Register, Square Terminal, and Square for Retail. Auto apply discounts are not yet available for Virtual Terminal Itemized sales, Appointments, or Invoices.
In the beta, you can create different types of quantity based discounts:
- Exact Purchase Quantity
- Minimum Purchase Quantity
- Buy X Get Y
There is always some risk of discovering a problem in a beta program, so you may want to start small before rolling it out across your business. If you do encounter an issue, our recommendation is to fall back to the 5.16 production application and reach out via this thread so we can turn off the feature flag. Note that your quantity-based auto apply discounts will no longer apply.
Update 7/18 - the minimum Square Point of Sale app version is available in the app store
Hi @Candlestore! In your example, you can add all of the qualifying candles and scents to the discount (items behave as "or" - buy scent A, or B, or C to get the savings).
Our pricing engine will evaluate the cart and apply the best discount for the buyer; so in the case that someone adds 5 candles, the 4 for $40 should be the discount that applies assuming it is the best discount.
To set this up, I would set an $8 discount (this will get me to the $40 price point auto apply based on Quantity, set the quantity to 4, select all of my qualifying 16 oz scents, and then set a discount rule of Exact Quantity. Let me know if that's not what you're looking to do!
I ran across my first little issue with BOGO discounting.
I decided to run a BOGO discount on a specific category of items with a scheduled date. The discount details were:
Buy 2 items from the specified category, then get 1 item from the same specified category free.
When selecting the Set Discount Rule, I selected the 3rd option which reads: "Buy One Get One - Example: Buy 2 items, apply discount to 1 additional item of equal or lesser value, best for buyer."
This statement seems a little contradictory. It can't be equal or lesser value AND be the best discount for the buyer at the same time.
The items in this category have various prices. My goal was to have the item with the smallest price be discounted as 100%.
To test the discount, I scanned in items at $4.50, $7.25, and $15.00 and no matter which order I scanned the items in, Square kept discounting the $15.00 item.
At the very least, there should be an option to select whether the lowest or highest priced item gets discounted. It's been my experience that the item with the lowest price is the item that gets the discount and if that isn't going to be the default discount rule, then I need to be able to have the option to select otherwise.
