Promotion

You use the Promotion Item Maintenance Screen to set promotions and other pricing schemes to encourage sales at some or all stores. You can set up several promotions for different stores ahead of time. As a promotion expires, it is automatically deleted from the system at the store level.

You can define pricing schemes to be triggered by any of the following criteria:

PLU
Department
Department Group
Category
Vendor

You can configure a promotion for any of the following pricing schemes:

New price

Dollar Off amount

Percentage Off amount

You can define nested promotions; multiple promotions for the same item that run at the same time. The system uses the lowest priced promotion of all promotions running at the time. When that promotion is complete, the next lowest price promotion takes effect. You can configure promotions to begin and end at certain times.

Structure

Screen Element	Description
Promo ID	Identifies the promotion or pricing scheme
Description	Description of the pricing scheme Note This description is not displayed at the POS. End of the note.

Promotion Period
Screen Element	Description
Promo Detail ID	Identifies this promotion for this period
Start Date Start Time Stop Date Stop Time	Defines the starting and ending dates and times of the promotion

Items Within Promotion
Screen Element	Description
By PLU	Specifies that the promotion is effective at the PLU level
PLU No	Specifies the PLU by number
Description	Description of the PLU item
By Merch Type	Specifies that the promotion is effective at the merchandise level
Dept	Name or number of the department affected by the promotion
Group	Name or number of the group affected by the promotion
Category	Number for the merchandise included in the promotion
Vendor	Vendor information for the promotion
User Flag	User-defined flag number

Promotion Criteria
Screen Element	Description
Fm Price Pt	Specifies the lowest price of an item in the promotion when the promotion is defined as a group of items in the same price category
To Price Pt	Specifies the highest price of an item in the promotion when the promotion is defined as a group of items in the same price category
Promo Method Applied To	Specifies the base against which the promotional price reduction should be applied. Choose one of the following options: Use original feature Apply to regular price Apply to level price
Accumulate	Specifies that items within one promotion can also be included in another promotion
Except	After selecting a merchandise type for a promotion, you can exclude specific items from the group. This option controls the exclusion of items from a promotion and enables the Exception ID field
Exception ID	Excludes an item from a group of items that are under a higher level promotion

Pricing Method
Screen Element	Description
New Price	Price markdown for the item
Markdown	Specific dollar value for the price markdown
Percent Off	Percentage of the regular price markdown
Pricing Target Type	Differentiates promotional pricing schemes for specific groups of customers. The POS compares this type to the Transaction Target Type of the user-defined transaction you would use to launch the promotion. If the types match, the system applies the promotional price.
Printing Method	Specifies whether or not the promotion type is printed on the receipt