How to apply discount

Applying discounts is one of the best ways to draw attention and increase customer volume for your business. With the discount function of Viindoo Point of sales software, you can add limited or unlimited discounts at any time, manually or automatically, depending on your business’s requirements.

Manual Discounts

In some cases, your product might have a few minor defects or has been stored for way too long in your store, you can stimulate the customer’s demand for that product by applying manual discounts right on the PoS session interface. Viindoo software support applying discounts directly on each product or on the total of the invoice.

Apply discount on one product

To activate the Manual discounts function, you need to access Point of Sale ‣ Configuration ‣ Point of Sale. Select a point of sale, at the Pricing section, select Manual Discounts and Save.

Selecting a point of sale in Vinndoo PoS Selecting Manual discount function in Viindoo PoS

Return to Dashboard, choose the point of sale, and select New Session. Select a table and add products to the order. At the order, choose the product you want to add discount and select Disc button, and then input the discount percentage.

Discount on an order with Viindoo PoS

The system will calculate the product’s price after the discount is input.

Applying discount on products with Viindoo PoS

Apply global discount for an order

To apply a global discount for an order, firstly, you need to activate that function by accessing Configuration ‣ Point of Sale and choose the point of sale.

Select Point of sale in Viindoo PoS

At the Pricing section, select Global Discounts. When selected, the system will automatically generate a service named [DISC] Discount and allows you to set up the discount percentage that will be applied to the order, for example, 10%, and press Save.

Applying global discounts on order with Viindoo PoS

Return to Dashboard, select point of sale, and press New Session. Select a table and add products to the order. To apply the global discount, at the order interface, select Discount.

Applying global discount on order interface with Viindoo PoS

On your screen, you will see a discount box appear with the default value which was set up earlier. This is only a suggestion value, you can change the discount percentage by inputting another value. Select OK to apply the discount.

Input discount percentage on order with Viindoo PoS

On the order, the system will automatically add a Discount and the discount percentage will be applied to the total amount of the invoice.

The order after applying global discount with Viindoo PoS

Apply discount by using pricelists

To set up discounts for a certain period of time, you can use the Pricelists function for PoS.