Configure Dynamic Pricing for SkyTab POS

Description: Learn how to configure Dynamic Pricing for SkyTab POS in Lighthouse Business Manager (LBM).

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Note: This is currently only available for US merchants.

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Overview

You can now custom price more of your menu at overlapping times based on Revenue Centers. The overhaul of Scheduled Pricing allows the assignment of Revenue Centers to multiple active price groups and enables scheduling by Day Part as well as custom Override Dates. Pricing rules can be applied to Departments and inherited or overridden by individual Items. Additionally, a new pricing rule will be introduced for flat dollar increase or decrease amounts.

Configuration

In LBM, navigate to SkyTab Settings > Menu > Dynamic Pricing (formerly Scheduled Pricing) to configure Dynamic Pricing.

Key Features and Enhancements

1. Revenue Centers Assignment:
   

   • Assign Revenue Centers to a Price Schedule.
   • Enable multiple active schedules by assigning non-overlapping Revenue Centers to different Price Schedules.

2. Day Parts:

   • Apply custom schedules or use Day Parts for quicker application of predefined dates and time frames.
     

3. Override Dates:

   • Set custom starting and ending dates, which allows any price schedule to become active on the selected date and automatically inactive at the end of the date range.
   • Override any overlapping schedules during the assigned dates. 
   • Automatic reactivation of the previous schedule once the Override Date ends.
     

Many aspects of the previous Scheduled Pricing feature have been kept, with new additions for easier and more advanced configuration.

Department Configuration

The configuration of Price Schedule rules can now be set from the Department level. 

1. Select the Department to edit and scroll down to Price Schedules.
2. Select the Price Schedules Group you wish to configure and set your rules based on the items within.
3. New pricing rules include forced dollar amounts up and down, along with the existing forced dollar price, forced percentage up, and forced percentage down.
   
4. Once these are set at the Department level, dynamic pricing has been configured. Tap Save.
   

New pricing rules include:

• +$ allows a fixed dollar amount addition to pricing
• -$ allows a fixed dollar amount reduction to pricing

Item Configuration

The configuration of Price Schedule rules at an Item level remains the same as with Scheduled Pricing.

1. Select the Item to edit and scroll down to Price Schedules.
2. Change the toggle from "Inherit Department Settings" to "Use Custom Settings."
   
   
   • Additionally, an Item can have its rules inherited from the Department level configuration.
3. Select the group and change your rules as needed.
4. Tap Save.

New pricing rules include:

• +$ allows a fixed dollar amount addition to pricing
• -$ allows a fixed dollar amount reduction to pricing 

Dynamic pricing will automatically be applied as pricing rules to Items and Items within the Departments based on the rules configured in Lighthouse Business Manager.