3 min readDec 13, 2021
QuickBooks POS: Discounts and Pricing Overview
Today we will learn about the different Discounts on how you would use discounts correctly and Pricing in QuickBooks point-of-sale. Let’s begin:
- On the menu go to “INVENTORY”, then click “PRICE MANAGER”.
- Price Manager will appear on your screen.
- Automatic Discounts
- You use this when your point-of-sale notices either a product or a combination of products that have an automatic discount set up, the discount will automatically take place on the price of the product or products.
- You could also filter the products that you’re going to use for your discount.
- For example, you could buy these three products for $10 but the original price of each of the product is $4, so when you compute it $4 * 3 = $12 you get a discount for $2 dollars.
- Also, you could set up a dollar discount or a percentage discount depending on what you want for the products.
- Manual Discounts
- From the word itself “Manual” you set up the discounts Manually.
- For example, your store is giving some flyers then from there you can set up a discount code just for your particular flyer.
- Coupons
- It creates a barcode that your point-of-sale understands.
- The Coupons can be use in two different ways: First if there is a manufacturer coupon then you can actually scan the manufacturer coupon barcode into your point-of-sale and the system will process on what to do with them and how much to give for a discount, second you can produce you own coupon.
- You could also produce a barcode out of your point-of-sale and you can actually send that to a magazine put it in a publication send it to a newspaper or have it where it can be printed out so people can see it and avail it in your store.
- Change prices for all or selected items in inventory
- Here you can have five different price levels.
- You can setup here you normal or retail price, special price, wholesale price, dealers’ price, and discounted price on certain dollar or percentage price.
- You can also assign a customer to certain price level. Or you could choose anyone for your price level like your employee, manufacturer, wholesaler, and so on.
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