Any suggestions on how to handle items we don’t want counting towards a volume discount? Say for example a guest buys 5 bottles of wine and a glass of wine and you offer a 6 bottle discount. What is the best way to keep that glass of wine as counting towards the discount?
I think people have a few different methods for handling this, so I’ll give my example. To create the discounts for my wine quantity discounts I have all wines that this discount will apply to use a brand that I call “Discountable Wines”. Then I create the promos that drive the discounts to use “Promotion on Select Product Brands” the brand of course being Discountable Wines.
The simple thing about this is that nothing that I haven’t assigned to the Discountable Wines brand (like a glass of wine in your case, or literally anything else) won’t have a discount applied.
- If I have a library wine that I don’t want quantity discounts to apply to I just apply a different brand called “Library Wines” and it will keep that wine from being discounted and also keep that wine from adding into the volume discount.
- When I put a wine on sale but still want that wine to add into the volume discount for the other wines being purchased I simply open up any promo I do not want applying to that sale wine and add the sale wine to the list of each promo’s excluded products. Since the sale wine will still be in the “Discountable Wines” brand it will be counted into the discount total but that promo will not further discount the sale wine.
I hope that helps, I always like to see people share their strategies.
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In researching this, I looked at the Brand solution and like it, however I’m using Brands for food products from local producers that we sell in the tasting room. I’ve set up separate Departments for bottled wine and for BTG pours, and use the Promotion on Select Departments option.
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