Is there a way to create a post-tax discount?

[ARDG]

We're looking to accept a credit voucher from a 3rd party, but want the person redeeming the voucher to pay tax on the full amount.

[#2]

Hello! While I can definitely understand how this feature could be useful in a number of scenarios, our discounts are currently only able to be applied before taxes. 

I'll be sure to share your feedback with our Product team!

PS) If my answer solved your problem, would you mind marking it as "Best Answer"? That'll help the rest of the community find what they're looking for. If not, just write back, and I'll continue to help. Thanks!

[ashc]

Hey @skincarebykayla! Welcome to the Community.

I moved your post to a relevant thread about how discounts are applied before taxes.

There's not a way to control or change this like you're looking for- but it looks like there's some other seller workarounds in here you might be interested in trying.

Right now this is still a feature request so it's best your post is here to track requests for it as well.

[hamiltonarchery]

I need this feature too.  My customers give me a deposit for lesson bookings.  I need to show this deposit coming off the bottom line, before tax.  😞  I really want to use the itemized functionality, but I can't.

[FuzedGlass]

The main way I would use it would be taking off deposits for classes/parties. We also have loyalty punch cards that give people $20 off when full. I'd like to show this on the receipt for the customer without having to split the transactions. Also, if people pay with gift certificates (we use paper gift certificates) that don't cover the entire balance, the tax isn't charged on the amount we deduct as the gift card payment. I know we can split it later on, but it takes a lot of time and customers get impatient and confused about what we are doing.

[AshleyK]

@hamiltonarchery and @FuzedGlass thanks for sharing the reasons you could benefit from this feature request! It really helps our Development Team when they design the requests. While I don't have a timeline for this feature request, I can still offer to bubble up this feedback to them! 

I appreciate your time and hope that you have a great day. 🙂

[sandyswoodshopp]

I am relatively new to SQUARE, but this is the second issue I've found that makes common sense - and an area that SQUARE refuses to address. Like other vendors at our craft festival, we offer a "PAY CASH AND I'LL PAY THE SALES TAX" discount. Unfortunately, SQUARE processes the discount, then processes the sales tax. As you might already suspect, the discount for cash payment (i.e., the sales tax) is always greater than the tax itself because the sales price gets reduced before the sales tax is applied. Surely, there's got to be a way, an easy way, to fix this.

[DebNature]

We are having a large number of in store credits from classes we had to cancel due to COVID.  The customers want to apply them to their online store order.  We are seeing that once their credit is applied, it reduces the sales tax on all sales and only collects on the difference.  The classes were a no tax event.  Is there a setting or rule to click for this.

example

online store order  100.00

store credit              -50.00

balance                     50.00

tax collected               3.17

Total of order             53.17

It should be

online store order    100.00

tax collected                6.35

balance                       106.35

store credit                 -50.00

Total of order                56.35

Please help!!!

[JustinC]

Hey @DebNature 

Thanks for the breakdown of how you want the tax to be calculated. Unfortunately, tax is figured on the subtotal after the credit/discount is applied. 

[aeldred]

Hey Justin! I use Square for my business and could also greatly benefit from an after-tax discount option. I do direct sales and always charge my customers tax based on the full retail price of my products, so when I offer deals or party discounts I need to be able to apply the discounts after tax.

After reading through this thread and the requests spanning several years, I'm in agreement with others who have mentioned this should have already been addressed. Can you please make this happen? I'm sure I'm not the only business owner who moved her formerly in-person business online, so having an invoicing tool that works how I need it during these times is important. Love Square other than this pretty significant shortfall!

[CreatureComfort]

I also need to be able to apply discounts only to Reatil items and not to services. PLEASE, please, please come up with a solution for this and not a work-around. f every employee doesn't understand or perform the work-around correctly, it creates even more headaches.

[LParker]

I really need to be able to apply a discount to items, yet still collect tax on them.  I also need to be able to track inventory.  The way it is currently is taxes are calculated off the subtotal, after the discount is taken.  It looks like this issue has been requested by several users over the past 4 years and I'm sure many could use the feature.  Has there really been no progress made here?  Is there any intention of adding this feature in the future?  If not, I will need to look elsewhere for collecting my payments 😞