Combos & Reporting

[Jonas]

Hello,

So, I have a two fold question where I currently have my combos set up as the side and drink are discounted 15% through modifiers in my pos under each main dish item.  The issue I have is the reporting isn't correct since the modifiers still report under the parent's item, and there isn't any way to change it.

I also don't know of a way to do an automatic discount in Toast that will ONLY deduct the 15% off of the side & the drink simultaneously. There is the combo discount option but that only has a fixed dollar amount for it.

So, question 1: Is there any way to get the reporting to show the drinks ordered under the modifier to report to the proper sales category?

Question 2: Has anyone found a working work around for the combo discount? I know the fixed amount method, but want to do it as closely as possible to my way as possible. 

[rcmck]

How did you setup the 15% off? Do the prices of sides and drinks vary? Is there a reason you couldn't just equate the 15% to a dollar figure and use the combo discount? Only other thing I can think of is to create a sales category named. Combos or something so you could at least track the sales of combos. 

[Jonas]

i put the 15% discount in the modifiers for sides and for drinks. Multiple side options at different price points, and multiple drink options at different price points where I wouldn't be able to price it at one actual price

[rcmck]

Ok, so it's 15% off of each? Maybe you could just take the total of the highest priced side and drink and take 30% off that, use that amount to create a combo discount if they order both, advertise it as save $x.xx dollars when you add a side and drink. Just a thought. Other than that I don't see a way to accomplish what you want other than what you already have in place with the lack of sales categories. 

[Rob]

At this time the modifiers function is to "modify" the item it's attached to. We are unable to have this modifier report to a different sales category than the item, even though there is the option to manually set a sales category at the modifier level in advanced properties. 
A long time ago there was a way to get that changed but it is no longer an option, and even with the workaround deployed it messed with other reports so it's not a great workaround, I've only mentioned its existence here in case someone is running that workaround and sees this post.