Itemized discounts on sales orders

This seems obvious, but I’ll hope I am missing something.

  1. Discounts - tied to the product group of the line, so it’s always in sync with the sales account (I mean, you can make it different, but it’s consistently different, and that’s still always your choice)
  2. Misc charges - tied to one account, the end. Better have a solid plan with these.

So if you want to discount a line on an order, discounts make perfect sense. Until you want to give multiple discounts and itemize them on the order and invoice. Or even if you just want a description for the discount.

Then you think, “I’ll use a misc charge!” But the problem with that is that if you have multiple sales accounts (like one for each of our two main product lines), you have a permutation of charges now, and you are utterly reliant on the sales person to pick the right misc charge for the product group (i.e… the sales account).

So… that’s it, right? There’s no nice way to add multiple discount lines but let them flow with the product group on the order line?

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