Comprehensive Guide to Promotions: Boost Your Sales | OrderCounter

Overview of Promotions

Promotions allow you to either automatically or manually apply a discount. either to the whole bill or to particular items.


Promotions can be configured in the Back Office under the Menu tab.


Types Of Promotions
Standard Promotions (Also known as "Promotion") – This is a promotion that you apply manually to a transaction and is intended as a standard marketing promotion, such as Buy one get one free,  spend $30 and get a free drink or 20% off your Bill
Examples of a standard Promotion:
  1. Employee Discount
  2. Military Discount
  3. Buy One Get One Free
Price Level Promotion – Creates a promotion that will change the price of an item during a specific time frame
Examples of a Price Level Promotion:
  1. Happy Hour
VIP Reward – creates a promotion for use with our VIP /loyalty program. Customers accrue points and those points qualify them for VIP rewards
Auto Promotion – This type of promotion is applied automatically as the items are rang though the till.

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