Till and Order Promotion :Buy Quantity Get Something Free:

Till and Order Promotion :Buy Quantity Get Something Free:

This particular type of promotion can be used if you are wanting your customers to by a certain amount of something before being eligible for a free item. 

E.g.: buy 2 shirts (from a chosen list) get a free pair of shorts. 


In the promotion you are able to set a list of items you want the customer to have to buy and the quantity of items from that list, as well as the free item they will receive if they purchase goods that make them eligible for the promotion. 



This promotion can be set up in Till and Customer Orders Promotions under Pricing. 



Under the Maintain Promotions option ensure buy qty get something free option



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NOTE: after editing a section (before moving to the next one) you will need to click “apply changes” for the alterations on that page to be saved.


  • Start / to Date: These are the dates that the promotion will run between. If you wish to end the promotion early remember to set the to date to the date on which you end the promotion, this will make sure the system no longer send this promotion to the till.

  • Active tick box: Ticking this tick box will tell the system to send the promotion down to the tills and to the website (if the branches are selected) next time it is prompted to send promotions to the tills/website.

  • Description: This can be set to anything, as long as the £ sign is not used as this will stop the promotion from being sent down to the tills. Whatever is entered here is what will shop up when the customer has a purchase that is eligible for this promotion.

  • Quantity to Buy: the value that is set on this line will determine what quantity from the “items to be bought” list the customer have to buy to receive the free item. I.E. if the quantity is set to 2, the customer can either buy 2 of one product, or 1 of two different products from the list, as long as the quantity of eligible items in the customer order is equal to the quantity set.

  • Voucher barcode: This particular field is for tills only and is available so that should you wish the customer to have present a voucher to even be considered for the promotion you will either need to enter the barcode of the voucher or have the voucher scanned. 
E.g.: in the above example “buy JNR away shirt & get free away shorts” if a voucher barcode was entered against the promotion and a customer purchased the shirt but hadn’t got a voucher, they would not receive the shorts for free. 

This is scanned like a PLU prior to totaling the sale on the till. 


  • Items to be bought: this section of the drop down is for you to set any items you want to the customer to have to buy to be able to receive the free item. For example: in the above example, this would be where you would add the junior away kit.

  • Free Items: Under this section you will need to add any items that you want the customer to be able to choose from to get for free.

This page contains all branches that you have set up. By selecting a branch you are telling the system to check if it should apply the discount to orders placed by those branches and to stock that is removed from branches (this is why the Warehouse branch is ticked). After selecting all the branches you want the promotion to apply to you will need to click apply changes to confirm to the system that you have set up the branches how you want them to be set.


Days and Times:


This section allows you to set the days of the week and the times you want the promotion to run to and from. For example: if you only wanted the items to be discounted from 00:00 Saturday until 23:59 Sunday (a weekend promotion that occurred on more than 1 weekend in a row) you would set the start and end time as above and tick only the Saturday and Sunday boxes, meaning that you wouldn’t have to worry about making the promo inactive after the first Sunday and making it active again the following Saturday.

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