Ability to Print a Price Tag with a Sale Or Discount
Am I the only one who would want to see the ability to print a price tag with a "sale" price on it while also showing the original price? I have many situations where I want to mark an item down temporarily or permanently and be able to show the customer the original price (without making a special sign for it)...It seems like a basic need.
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The system our other two companies still currently use is able to do this. The tags are a bit larger (https://www.archcrown.com/productcategories.cfm?subcategory=9&StartRow=13&PageNum=2&rrl=1 , the TT361 media) and were able to display a bit more info. But we have to make do with the tools that were provided in terms of these smaller jewelry tags with LS Retail...
You could manually put the percentage change formula in the Label template based on certain conditions using Twig/Javascript. Or you could use the API to make a sale, apply a discount and then set that number on the label.
Alternatively and simply, you could just use the MSRP and change the name to sale manually or otherwise dynamically using javascript
Was
Now
Regularly
Closeout
MSRP
Our Price
Regularly
Sale
And so forth.
The font size of the original price can be 1/3 or 1/4 size of the new price.
You want to mark an Label showing the new "sale" price.
In Lightspeed Retail a discount is always and only applied at the checkout. If you create a price rule or use a percentage/fixed discount this will all happen at the point of Sale.
Since the standard inventory item doesn't have any relationship with future sale discounts, there is therefore no simple way to reflect that change on a label. This makes sense since discount amounts are dependent on many factors, whether manual selection or customer category.
So in order to circumnavigate this I might suggest that you use the MSRP/RRP (Manufactuer Suggested Retail Price/Recommended Retail Price).
In Lightspeed Retail you can display the MSRP/RRP by going to Settings > General > Shop Setup > Shop Name > Product Labels > Show MSRP/RRP.
This will then display a secondary price showing only the MSRP if the MSRP price is greater than the default price assigned to the store.
Now you'll have to do some HTML and CSS adjustments to make the label look how you want after that.
Otherwise what I had suggested above was programming these changes in which gives you more flexibility using the languages of Twig and Javascript.
Although we don't support the development of customised templates we do have a number of development partners who we often suggest for such work. You can find out more details for this if you contact your sales representative.
Lightspeed Ideas:
http://ideas.lightspeedretail.com
Outside of this/using customSku/Manufacturer field for the old price, only a programmatic solution will suit your needs.