Setup and Manage Discounts with Square

Learn how to create and manage discounts with Square.

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Set up and manage discounts quickly and easily from your online Square Dashboard or the Square app.

You can manually apply your discounts during the checkout flow, or create advanced settings to automatically trigger discounts for specific items, categories, quantities, or timeframes.

Just keep in mind, to create automatic discounts, you’ll need to head to your online Square Dashboard.

To get started:

1. Visit Items, Discounts.
2. Click Create a Discount.
3. Enter the discount details — including the discount name, amount (either percentage or dollar amount), and applicable locations.

If you’d like to apply your discount manually, click save. If you want to set up an automatic discount so items are discounted during a sale for specified time frames or combinations, toggle on “Automatic Discount”.

Create automatic discounts for specific items or categories, for specific quantities, and decide if you want a discount to be available at any time, or only certain times, like for a happy hour or seasonal sales.

Item and Category Discounts

If you select Item or Category, when you add specified items or categories to your cart, the new discount will automatically trigger and deduct from the item price.

Quantity Discounts

Create a discount that will automatically apply when you add items or categories and a specified quantity to a sale.

You can set up three types of quantity discounts:

Exact Quantity: When you add an exact item quantity to your cart, the discount will automatically trigger and apply to the item cost.
Minimum Purchase Quantity: When you add a minimum quantity of an item to your cart, a discount will apply to all of the specified items.
Buy One, Get One: When a customer buys a specified quantity of an item or category, a discount will apply towards additions of the same item or towards different item(s) added to the cart. For example, you can create a BOGO discount so that when a customer purchases 2 hats, they’ll receive 50% off the cost of a scarf.

Note: If you’d like to set up a buy one, get one free discount, just make sure to set the discount percentage amount to 100%.

Once you set up your discount and specify the applicable items or categories, you can limit when the discounts will automatically apply by selecting times of the day, days of the week, or dates in a year.

Time Based Discounts

If you want your discount to apply weekly on specific days, enable “Set Schedule”. When the items or categories are added during the specified timeframe, the discount will automatically trigger.


Limited Time Discount

Create an automatic discount for a specific date range by enabling “Set Date Range”


Automatic discounts can be used in combination. For example: You can create a minimum quantity discount on a recurring basis or for a limited time by setting up the discount Schedule or Date Range.

You can update an existing discount at any time by clicking Edit Purchase Rule from the discount details page.

To learn more about creating discounts with Square, head to Sqaure.com/help and search keyword “discounts”