Examples of popular Promotion discounts

Now that we've covered the process of creating promotions in Poster from scratch, let's take a look at some common examples of the promotions you can build.

Happy hours

Create a 'Happy Hours' promotion to provide your customers with a discount when they make purchases during specific hours:

1. Go to Marketing → Promotions in the management console.
2. Click Add.
3. Enter a name and set start/end dates.

   1. 💡 Promotion can last for a month, after which it will become unavailable.

4. Select Locations where the promotion is available.
5. Select Menu items and categories which are available for the promotion.
6. Enter the Quantity of the items required for promotion: Exactly 1.

   1. ☝️ Exactly 1 means that you can get a discount for each ordered menu item as long as you add 1 piece of it to your order.

7. In Stacking logic select Multiple times per order.

   1. 💡 Multiple times per order means that the promotion can be applied repeatedly whenever the ordered items meet the requirements.

   2. For instance, you can reapply the promotion up to 5 times if 5 items that meet the requirements were ordered.

8. Select promotion days and hours:

   1. ☝️ Promotion can be available from Monday to Friday, between 8:00 PM and 12:00 AM, throughout the month.

9. In Preferred customers select All customers.
10. In Promotion rewards, set a flat discount, or a discount rate for promotional items.
11. Click Add.

Buy 3 for $9

Create a 'Buy 3 for $9' promotion to offer your customers a special price when they purchase three items from the same category:

1. Go to Marketing → Promotions in the management console.
2. Click Add.
3. Enter a name and set start/end dates.
4. Select Locations where the promotion is available.
5. Select Menu items and categories which are available for the promotion.
6. Enter the Quantity of the items required for promotion: Exactly 3.

   1. ☝️ Exactly 3 means that you receive a special price on 3 items of the same category once you add 3 pieces from that same category. Even adding 4 pieces grants a special price for 3 items only.

7. In Stacking logic select Multiple times per order.

   1. 💡 Multiple times per order means that the promotion can be applied repeatedly whenever the ordered items meet the requirements.

   2. For instance, you can reapply the promotion each time 3 items of the same category are ordered within one order.

8. Select promotion days and hours.

   1. ☝️ Promotion can be available all week from Monday to Friday, between 12:00 AM and 11:59 PM, throughout the month.

9. In Preferred customers select All customers.
10. In Promotion rewards, set special prices for promotional items.
11. Set up item special prices to $3 each.
12. Click Add. 

Now once a customer orders 3 items from the promotional category, Poster provides a special price for each item, which is $3 making it $9 total.

5th coffee free

1. Create a '5th coffee free' promotion to grant an extra coffee cup upon buying 4:
2. Go to Marketing → Promotions in the management console.
3. Click Add.
4. Enter a name and set start/end dates.
5. Select Locations where the promotion is available.
6. Select Menu items and categories which are available for the promotion.
7. Now let's enter the Quantity of the items required for the promotion.
   1. ☝️ Exactly 4. So the customer needs to purchase 4 coffee cups to get the 5th for free.
8. In Stacking logic select Stacking menu items in multiple order.
   1. Stacking menu items in multiple orders helps promotion to track products purchased by customers in previous orders to issue the reward.
9. Select promotion days and hours.
10. In Preferred customers select Registered customers only.
    1. ☝️ Preferred customers can either be registered customers or exclusive customer groups when Stacking menu items in multiple orders is selected.
11. In Promotion rewards, select Reward items as a Reward type.
12. Add required coffee items to Reward items list.
13. In Reward quantity enter 1, or 2 if you provide 2 free coffee cups upon buying 4.
14. In Reward terms select what kind of discount is provided for the 5th coffee cup.
    1. 💡 For example, it can be a Discount rate on reward items or Special prices, or even a Flat discount.
15. Set up a discount or a special price after that.
16. And in Reward issuing terms select when the free coffee cup can be obtained.
17. Click Add.

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