Discount Manager

Discount Manager

The Maitre’D External Discount Manager Interface allows restaurants to apply discounts on guest checks which are managed by a third-party software, application or website. This also allows for specific promotion codes to be used and validated by the third-party. Loyalty cards can also be used to determine availability and eligibility for discounts.

Before using the Discount Manager, an account needs to be setup with a supported External Discount Management System (EDMS) provider.

Provider

Select your provider amongst the available choices.

Merchant Number

Type in the merchant number provided by your EDMS provider.


Communication

URL

Type in the URL, web address or IP address used to communicate with your EDMS provider.

Time Out

Enter the time out value, in seconds. Recommended value is 5 seconds. Please contact your EDMS provider to see if they have different recommendations.

Retry Delay

Enter the Retry Delay value, in seconds. Recommended value is 5 seconds. Please contact your EDMS provider to see if they have different recommendations.

User Name

Type in the user name provided by your EDMS provider.

Password

Type in the password provided by your EDMS provider.

Click this button to test your communication settings. A success message will be displayed if the connection is successful.


Option

Promotion Type

From this drop-down list, select the type of promotion that will be accepted at the POS workstations:

None

External promotions will not be accepted at the POS workstations.

Promotion Code

The POS Workstation will only accept external discounts based on promotion codes. Promotion codes can be keyed in, swiped or scanned.

Loyalty Card

The POS Workstation will only accept discounts tied to a loyalty (Frequent Diner) card. The card can be keyed in, swiped or scanned.

Prompt for type

The POS workstation will ask every time whether a promotion code or loyalty card should be used. This option allows for both promotion types to be used on the same system.

Send Invoice Detail

On Query

Select this option to have Maitre’D send the invoice detail to the external provider at the same time as the Discount Manager database is queried.

On Commit

Select this option to have Maitre’D send the invoice detail to the external provider as the discount is applied.

Linked Customer

Enable this option to have Maitre’D send the invoice detail to the EDMS provider even if no discount was applied, as long as the customer folio was entered.

Unlinked Customer

Enable this option to have Maitre’D send the invoice detail to the EDMS provider even if no folio was entered for the customer.


Log

Level

Enable the Log Level type you want to use for operations trace

Use the View/Log button to open and view log.

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