Please also add the ability to apply discounts to specific categories. We own a cafe and want to offer discounts to food and drink, but not retail merchandise. Thanks!

Thanks for flagging this @io - I'll be sure to pass this feedback along to our Product Team. 👍

Square Point of Sale does not have this capability.  

What you could do is add the sale price to your item as an item variable.  If you are scanning items it will only work if you move the upc to the sale price and remove it from the regular price.  Once the sale is done you can move the upc back.  I am sure this will effect your reports and I know it will effect your inventory.  

You could just change the price in the system to the sale price and then change it back when the sale is over.  You will not show a discount on the ticket to the customer.

Maybe one of these days it will be a feature.

Hi @bfcstore!

As @RHatch stated, the feature to automatically apply discounts to items is not available at the moment. In the meantime, you can follow their suggestions and I've also added your post to a thread on the topic so that you can stay updated on if or when we might implement it. 🤙🏼

Not an option.  I know it seems crazy, but you need to manually add the discount per item by tapping on it then selecting a predefined discount.  It's a feature that should have been present at Square's inception, but we're still waiting 😞

We had our huge annual case sale last Friday which featured a 20% discount off a half case or 30% off a full case.  My employees needed to determine how many bottles, then choose the appropriate discount.  We quickly found that the wrong discount could be clicked by accident.  Also, if a customer started with 6 bottles, then decided to add 6 more, it is possible to activate BOTH discounts for a 50% discount.  It would have been really nice to be able to auto apply a discount based on the number of items in the transaction.

We had about 1,500 customers on Friday and were greeted today with customer messages regarding inaccurate discounts.

@puka is there an option to only allow a single discount per item?  I don't really see the need to activate multiple discounts per item.

Thanks for your post, @sciabica1936. I know getting through another holiday season without this built into Square is not ideal. 

I wanted to remind you (and others reading this post) that the developer @mtnwswbob created a workaround using our APIs that would solve the issue and is available for free. I just tested it out again and it works well - you can select your item category and choose the type of increase or decrease (amount or percent) you'd like to apply to everything in that item category. 

Screenshot of the setup screen

The app is available here and has been vetted by our internal Square Developer team. You'll be asked to log in with your Square account, grant access to your items information, and then you can set up the discount. After the discount is enabled, if you go to your Square dashboard and refresh your item library, you should see the discount reflected. 

I know you're asking for this functionality to be built into Square, but at least for this holiday season, using this app could be one way to make things a little easier on yourself and your staff. 

@lemonade605, thank you for your post - I hear you! We know this is at the top of many of our customers' wish lists. In your case, I see how it could be really helpful for ongoing promotions and clearances. Thank you for letting us know what your needs are - the team is still at work on this one. 

@gingersgelato I've merged your post to this thread where Tom (part of Community team) and other sellers have shared a few workarounds to set up and manage discounts like this. 

Right now there isn't a feature to pair up items and discount them as you do with a buy-one-get one promotion.