Discounting Below Cost Behaviour

The discounting below cost settings allow you to control how Shopfront responds when a product's price is calculated to be below its cost. This includes the prevention of a sale from occurring when products are priced below cost or providing users with a warning message. This setting is applicable on all price calculations including the product's normal (everyday) price, promotional and discounted products.

Note; Any scan rebates applied to a product on promotion will affect the profit percentage.

Accessing and Configuring the Discounting Below Cost Settings

To modify the discounting below cost settings follow the steps below 

1. Open the Menu
2. Select Setup
3. Select General
4. Select Outlets
5. Select an outlet
6. Scroll down to Miscellaneous where you will find the setting Discounting Below Cost Behaviour

Each setting option is explained below.

Allow

This is the default value, it allows the user to sell below cost with no warning, if you don't want staff to know your cost prices, you'll need to run on this setting.

Warn

When a price calculation occurs that results in a lower-than-cost price, Shopfront will show a dialog warning the user that the price is below the cost price. It allows users to ignore the warning or to adjust the sell price to the cost price (the user will require their Role to have the See Cost Permission enabled).

Prevent

This prevents products from being sold below cost, when a price calculation results in a lower-than-cost price, Shopfront will show a dialog which forces the user to update the sell price to equal the cost price.