Introduction
This article provides an example of a promotional price deal discount scenario where a product (or select products) are sold at a fixed price as part of a promotion. For example:
- In an F&B scenario, all cocktails sold at 6.95 during happy hour.
- In a Retail scenario, promotion on selected T-shirts sold for 20.00.
This article is for illustrative purposes only; for the full steps on building a new Deal, Click Here.
IMPORTANT: Before creating a deal, check that you have the following:
- A "Deal Reporting Product". A product representing the deal that discounted items report against within the transaction. This is a standard Back Office Product with the Deal Reporting Product checkbox enabled in the Additional Options section.
- Product families (if required). A family of products used to specify basket conditions for the deal to activate, or used to specify products that should be excluded from transaction-level discounts. These are managed within the Product Families section.
Deal Configuration Steps
Step 1: Deal Details
When creating the deal:
- Enter a Deal Name for the the deal as it should be known in the Back Office (customers don't see this) and link to a Deal Type. Then select the Deal Reporting Product for the deal to report against in transactions.
- The Discount Level should be "Specific Items" as the deal only applies to those in the combo.
- Select when the deal is Available From and To. You can apply additional availability rules later.
Once created there are two further options:
- Iteration Limit: Specify the number of times that this deal can be activated within a customers basket. If there is no limit, leave this blank.
- Allow Stacking: Enable this if items discounted by this deal can be further discounted by a transaction-level deal that gets applied later.
Step 2: Deal Conditions
There should be a single Deal Condition representing the item that should be purchased.
The Deal Condition should have a Deal Condition Name for Back Office identification purposes.
Use Item Selection Method to select items for this condition based on "Product Family" or "Individual Product", and then select that family or product in the Item Selection list.
Select your Condition Metric - which is typically "Quantity" in a promotional product deal scenario - and then enter your Minimum and Maximum values as the same value per the condition requirement.
Step 3: Deal Discounts
There is one Deal Discount.
Enter the Menu Discount Name as the deal should be shown to customers.
Select the Discount Type as "Fixed Amount", along with the Value of that fixed price should be when the condition is met. The Tax Option will populate automatically based on your location.
Against Discounted items select "All Condition Items" to allocate the fixed price against the item that meets the condition.
The Applies To option is typically not required in promotional price deal scenarios as all applicable products are discounted, unless an Iteration Limit is applied. If an iteration limit is applied, typically either "Most Expensive" or "Least Expensive" would be used to apply the deal to the least/most expensive applicable item in the basket per your deal terms.
For promotional price deal scenarios, the Discount Value Limit should be left blank.