Adjustments are more commonly known as discounts but can also include surcharges. They’re used to quickly adjust an order based on different types of promotions, incentive programs, or for public holiday surcharges.
| Adjustment Type | Description | Example |
| Simple Adjustment | Simple Percentile or Value amounts that can be applied as a discount or surcharge | Public Holiday Surcharge 100% Owner Discount $20 off total |
| Buy X items for $ | Deal that will give a certain number of the items in same categorie sold for a set value instead of the total combined amount of each | Buy any 4 Beers for $20 instead of $8 each |
| Buy X of the same PLU for $ | Deal that requires the same item ordered together at a discounted price | Buy 2 Choc Chip for $3 instead of$2 each |
| Buy X & receive Y for Free | Deal that will discount a number of items if a threshold is reach of the same item or group | Buy 2 Coffees get one Free |
| integration related adjustment | Adjustments for when discounts & surcharges are applied to transactions & sent to POS by Online Menus or Credit Card transactions etc | Credit Card Surcharge that is applied after payment is finalised by Eftpos machine |
| Customised | More Complex deals that require more fine tuning. See Guide | Order 1 Main Meal, 1 Salad & 1 Drink for $45 instead of total of individual prices |
Creating Simple Adjustment
Open the Adjustments tile
This will present you with the adjustments screen
On the left-hand side pane, you will see some of the different Adjustment types – selecting any one of these types will display a list of the Adjustments of that type on the right-hand side.
We can edit any adjustment by selecting it and then clicking edit on the far right, and from the same screen we can disable or enable the Adjustment by checking the enabled switch.
To add a new adjustment, we can click new in the control panel.
This will open a window with all the different types of adjustments you can create in Power E POS.
Select a ‘Simple Adjustment ‘
This will open the general settings for Simple Adjustments
Here we can give the Adjustment a name – this name is so when you come back into your adjustments you can at a glance easily find the adjustment you want to alter, enable or disable at a glance.
The next option is receipt text – this is what will be displayed on the customer receipts.
Then you can move onto the Reward Method, if you hit the drop-down arrow you will be present with a bunch of different reward methods depending on what you need your adjustment to do. If you are unsure of what each method does, you can press the ‘I’ which will give you a brief description of each method. Depending on which method you select this may change some of the following options presented.
| Reward Method | Description | Example |
| Amount Discount | A fixed amount that will deduct from the total of the qualifying items in a transaction | $10 discount if a rewards card is presented |
| Percentage Discount | A fixed percentage that will deduct a variable amount calculated from the total of the qualifying items in a transaction | 5% Seniors Discount on Coffee |
| Complimentary | Will adjust all Qualifying items to be of $0 value | Owners' discount for food |
| Amount Surcharge | A fixed amount that will add value from the total of the qualifying items in a transaction | |
| Percentage Surcharge | A fixed percentage that will add a variable amount calculated from the total of the qualifying items in a transaction | 10% Public Holiday Surcharge |
| Cover Charge | A Fixed amount that will multiplied against the number of covers on a transaction | $5 per person charges |
| Item Amount Discount | A fixed amount that will deduct an amount from each qualifying item in a transaction | $1 off Medium Coffees during 12pm-1pm |
| Item Percent Discount | A fixed percentage that will deduct a variable amount calculated from each qualifying item in a transaction | 5% off each Main Meal ordered |
| Set Price per item | Set each qualifying item to be a fixed value which will be discounted or surcharged on the item depending on if it is greater or smaller then the Fixed amount | All Glasses of House Wine are $8 during Happy Hour |
In this guide we will select Percentage Discount as this is a simple discount to explain how they can be used but is also one of the more commonly used adjustments.
You can enter the percentage amount that your adjustment will be discounting, and even set the max dollar amount that can have this adjustment applied to.
Next we have switches, the first of which being can include or exclude child products, children products can include extras added to products, for example if you had a Caesar Salad, and they added additional chicken that costs $6 you might not wish for the discount to apply to the additions, in which case you would switch to no – to not include child products.
The switches after this are whether the discount is enabled or active, and whether this discount will be applied automatically based on the requirements you set or manually selected via a button added to the touchscreens.
Finally, in the general settings you can select what “Adjustment Group” this adjustment applies to - **See Adjustment Groups Guide
On the left we have more settings to further configure our adjustments, starting with schedule. Schedule gives us the ability to set a date and time the event is active between.
Next is Service Modes, this allows you to limit what modes the adjustments are available in, for example if you had an adjustment for only takeaway items, you might want to limit that adjustment to exclusively work in the take-away service mode.
Then we have Permissions, this simply gives us the ability to select whether a specific group of people can apply the adjustments or not.
Finally you can also add a graphic for the adjustment as a quick visual reference to what that adjustment might be for, or what it does.
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