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Overview
Cash discounting has emerged as an increasingly popular strategy in the hospitality industry, offering establishments a method to mitigate rising operational costs while providing value to certain customer segments. This pricing approach rewards cash-paying customers while helping businesses optimize their financial operations.
Currently, the cash discounting feature is exclusively available to customers using Oolio Pay as their payment provider. This feature is managed through an authorization flag in the CMP, which means that the Accounts team needs to enable it for your use.
Specifications
Released in Version: 4.8.0.0
Release Date: May 2025
Product: SmartPOS, Backoffice
Key Features & Capabilities
- Dual Pricing displayed on SmartPOS
- Configure discount rates across product sorts or types
- Available to Oolio Pay customers
- Configure on the store level for full flexibility
Configuration
Operator Privileges
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A new operator flag in the 'General' tab of the Operator Maintenance window controls access to the ‘Cash Discounting’ configuration.
Enabling Cash Discounting
- Navigate to the ‘Store Maintenance’ window.
- Select the ‘Cash Discounting’ tab.
- Check the ‘Enable Cash Discounting’ checkbox to activate the feature.
- When enabled, all relevant fields become active and allow changes.
- When disabled, the feature is turned off, and all fields are greyed out.
Setting Discount Rates
- Within the ‘Cash Discounting’ tab, you can set the discount percentage (e.g., 2%).
- Choose between product sorts and product types for configuring cash discount percentages.
⭐ Best Practice
It is possible to set different discount rates across different product sorts / types, we suggest that all products are set to a uniformed rate to avoid confusion in SmartPOS
- A new function button called ‘Set All Discount Rates’ allows setting all fields to the same discounted rate.
- A dropdown menu called ‘Cash Discount Totaliser’ lists all discount totalisers from Venue Settings
