Is there a way to NOT allow discounts on specific items?

We need the ability to mark individual items and entire categories to Allow or Prevent discounts.

For example, we have member discounts (10% off) that we would like to allow for merchandise but not for event tickets or purchase of memberships. Others have said that they want to allow discounts on on food but not on bar beverages.

So, we would like to see something like a toggle on/off in the category definition and/or item description... maybe “Allow Discounts”.

We would be interested in participating in a beta.

Got it, thank you @Cfrohrbach

@elaine_p, definitely, sign us up for any beta testing you are doing regarding pricing changes and bundling etc, we are already running the Square POS Beta clients.

Will do! Thank you @VanKalkerFarms

Here's an even bigger problem with this inability to include/exclude categories for discounting.  If you sell both taxable and nontaxable items, a fixed amount discount or a percentage discount alters the amount of tax collected on the sale.  Not only do we have to waste time coming up with workarounds, if we don't, we lose money that has to be made up on the back end.

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: Can you make a promo code that will only certain items in the online store

@TwistedRail @SpencerRenI've moved your posts here so our Product Manager @elaine_p has can see your posts. She's been working to understand exactly what sellers need here, and she's also sharing tips for how to make sure a discount isn't applied to everything in a sale. 

We'll share any developments on excluding categories from specific discounts in this thread. Now that you're posts are here, you'll be automatically notified of any updates.

@TwistedRail - Do your local tax requirements indicate paying taxes on the pre-discounted amount? Or, is the issue that discounts are applying at the cart level vs. the item level when you have a cart with taxable and nontaxable items? 

If it's easier to discuss in a quick chat,  we can schedule a time that works for you. 

My issue is that I want to be able to turn off discounts on certain items - not certain categories, just items, similar to the way we can make certain items non-taxable. The situation is that we offer discounts on purchases in our Museum Shop for historical society members. However, we occasionally also sell a membership in the same transaction. If the clerk (volunteers who work maybe once a month or less) forgets to remove the discount when putting the membership plus purchased items in the sale, then the membership gets discounted also, causing a loss of funds. We also have a few items which, due to grant funding, are not permitted to be sold, and technically are given for a donation. They are also not taxable. When the item was entered in the items building area, the tax option was turned off so that the system will not add sales tax to that item. However, if the clerk forgets to turn off the discount, then the item is discounted causing a loss of funds.

Good morning.

We have specific items that we DO NOT allow discounts on.  And even if I advise staff, they forget, and will still provide the discounts.

We use a fixed amount discount on non-taxable items (alcohol) during happy hour.  Cannot use a percentage discount for that.  This discount is applied at the cart level and impacts the amount of tax being assigned to the taxable items (food).  We are talking potentially pennies on each sale but that does add up and we have to make up the difference when submitting tax on our food items.