Elaine,
yes, the discount should be triggered automatically. for example, we run a garden center, and we sell geraniums at 4.99 ea. when a customer gets to 6, they drop to 4.79 ea. we should be able to just ring up geraniums, either all together or spread out throughout the sale, and let the app figure out (based on the discount structure we've entered) how much each geranium is depending on how many the customer buys. this helps in several ways. a customer may have 6 geraniums scattered around thier cart. the cashier may ring up 2 in the beginning, 2 in the middle, and 2 at the end of the order. as soon as the cashier rings in the 6th geranium, all the geraniums should reduce to the discounted price. we have a lot of different items with different discounts, to trust the cashier to remember all of them is too much to ask and also slows down the checkout process. but probably the biggest benifit is being able to bar code items. barcoding and scanning greatly speeds up the check out process. but the way the app works now, we can't barcode anything that has a volume discount. the reason is because the cashier would have to remember or constently check on the screen, as they are ringing up many different items that all have different discounts, how many of each item they are ringing up, and then manually change the price to the discounted price. this defeats the whole benefit of barcoding and scanning as the cashier would spend more time checking the volumes of each item and making sure the items have the correct price then they would if they just manually enereted each item. so, to answer your question again, yes, the discount should be triggered automatically when the appropriate quantity is reached. i've used several other POS systems over the years and this is a basic feature that they all possess. Thanks a lot for looking into this issue, i really hope this feature is added soon. -Darin
