Just some ideas on barcodes and set discounts. I just responded to an email asking if we had the availability to scan a barcode and have the system do a set discount. I had to reply and say no, not yet. I did say that we have custom button that can have a fixed price or a variable price but we can't auto include set discounts based off of barcodes yet. I did mention that the custom button could contain custom verbage. When all is said and done, I can affect a price but not by showing discounts.

So, where do we want it to go? I think that barcodes are very important and a great way to do a direct search and/or find a specific thing. It really speeds things up. We would need a system in place to be able to interpret the barcode scan and then know what to do based off of that barcode. This comes to a logic and/or smart cart type brain or mentality.

I would also like to see our custom buttons have the ability to store, show, and calculate specific discounts. To take that one step further... It would be nice to have the same functionality as the buttons without the button. Basically, make the logic and functionality of the buttons be more generic and transparent. That way we wouldn't have to use the buttons.

This is just an idea... what if we made a whole other section where people could build hidden buttons. Basically, the system could use the same tables and logic but no physical button exists. The new entity could be called a price/discount programming or a pricing engine. People have loved our buttons and what they do... they just want things more on a global and easy to update bases. What if we took the logic and functions of our buttons and made them more transparent and/or showed them as pricing rules. We then get the advantage of the buttons without using the buttons... Maybe we focus more on the barcode part of it and then go from there. That could really work and would be awesome. Anyways, just an idea.