@brad83 I’m curious. A negative price item? For what purpose. I know that currently this is not possible, even at the modifier level where it would be useful (ie - customer chooses NO cheese, which makes the price $x less). However, I can tell you that I suggested this to Square a decade ago and they marked it as not planned at this time. I’ve worked around it with some creative discounts, and by making my items more generic, to only charge for the basic, basic item with modifiers to add on everything else.
Still, I’m curious what you envision using this for?
Regards,
However it would distort your reports by taking the initial $500 Deposit and the the evening other type of payment $500. In theory it would take the $500 twice on any report you ran and then you would have to back the "other type of payment" out for correct reporting.
Invoice plus module will be needed
For party work I would create an invoice, set up a payment schedule (there you have the option of creating a deposit as a percentage or as a dollar amount
Do not close the invoice therefor you can add your food and drink onto it and then close it out at the end of the night.
hope that helped
@brad83 wrote:
Now If I apply a $500 deposit discount, it'll subtract & split the discount up among every item on food & booze. I don't want to reduce the cost of a Bud Light, I just need to take $500 off the bill.
It doesn't work that way in my experience. Looking at a bill I discounted today in transaction history it shows all the items at full cost then the $ (or in my case £) discount as it's own line.
If you do a % discount then I believe it applies it to each item rather than its own line.
The only issue with what @PartyManiaMD has suggested is that it could end up recording the same payment (the deposit) twice and screwing with your records.
** One last suggestion though **
When you take a deposit you could apply it to a gift card (could just be internally done). So they buy a gift card as the deposit, then you apply that gift card to the sale on the day to close them out.
@Sam_400º All valid points. @brad83 would have to be sure not to record that particular payment type where he put the deposit. I love the gift card idea! Talk about thinking outside the box!
I think the confusion can be seen here on a screen shot from my POS. I applied a $6.50 discount to this check, but that discount code and amount is shown for EVERY item on the check. And to answer your question, if I add a third item AFTER the full discount has been realized, even those new items have that discount line! That is new behavior, I believe, possibly even introduced with the new POS experience.
Agreed. Causing confusion for no reason. Ticket level dollar & percentage discounts should not be listed on items, period. Only item level percentage discounts should show on items.
@BernadetteA Is this possibly a bug? I can’t imagine that it was intentional behavior. I only tag you because I know you are active on the board right now!
@brad83 It’s highly possible that you are just fine with the discount method you have been using. I can find no evidence in my transactions that ticket-level dollar discounts are actually pro-rated among all the items. If it were, it would be a very odd engineering decision, or just flat out a bug.
