Government Eat Out To Help Out Scheme
The recently announced Government incentive for attracting clients back to hospitality venues is rather a
specific style of discount that had no similar function within GPoS. The discount is quite complex in that;
- It is only available on certain days of the week
- It is only available to customers that dine in / drink in
- Is only available on food and non-alcoholic beverages
- The discount is 50% off appropriate items, or up to £10 off per person (which ever is the lesser of
the two)
- The discount is per person per meal, but can be used multiple times during a visit (i.e. per
transaction)
- VAT still needs to be paid on the gross amount of items that qualify for the discount
The scheme is offered to appropriate venues by the government, and each venue must apply the
government to be apart of the scheme. In addition to that, in order to claim the discount back from the
government, specific records need to be kept;
For each day records of;
- Total number of people who used the scheme in the establishment
- Total value of the transactions under the scheme
- Total amount of discounts given.
In order to accommodate this a new type of discount has been created. This type of discount delivers the
discounted value by means of a payment key, and so the discounted value does not reduce the PLU totals
in the normal way. This method is used for two reasons; 1) The PLUs sold need to record VAT at the gross
value, and 2) The requirement of record keeping needs to record the full transaction value.
All reporting will be done via GPoS and a new report has been created that can be ran during the end of day process
This functionality is available in the form of a patch for GPoS Versions 1.62.xxx and 1.64.xxx
Operation - An example of this below, there is a more extensive version to cover both styles of transactions attached as a PDF document
1)Register items in the normal way, apply multibuys discounts of other types as necessary.
2)At the end of the transaction (and AFTER you have split bills if using split bills on balances). Enter the person count.
3)Press the discount key.
NB:
•The discount will error if a person number has not been entered first.
•The discount can only be applied once in a transaction. If it was done prematurely, you must error correct it before pressing it again. •The discount takes the cap X number of persons as a maximum discount value. If the calculated discount is less than this, then the calculated is used. If more or equal to the calculated cap, the cap is used instead.
*patch now contains all files needed
*patch now contains all files needed