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Can't apply a discount or fee directly to a counter sale (POS) invoice

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Role: Administrator · Office Admin · Accountant · BookkeeperArea: Counter Sales · Point of Sale (POS) · Pricebook · All versions

What you're seeing

You're building a counter sale (POS) invoice and want to take money off with a discount, or add a fee. There's no option to apply a discount or fee directly. The standard discount option doesn't work on a counter sale invoice.

Why this happens

Reason

A counter sale (POS) invoice doesn't support discounts or fees directly.

Discount tasks (the standard discount option) don't apply to it. To adjust the total, you add a pricebook service item instead.

Before you start

Add the discount or fee before you collect payment. You can't edit a paid counter sale invoice.

Caution: Do not use this workaround to add a credit card surcharge or convenience fee. Fintech guidance is that discount and fee items are not compliant for card surcharging. Instead, increase prices and offer a cash discount.

How to fix it

Add a discount or fee as a pricebook service item

  1. Go to the Pricebook.

  2. Create a service item priced to match the adjustment: a negative price for a discount, or a positive price for a fee.

  3. Add the item to a pricebook category that's assigned to the POS location, so it can be added to counter sale invoices.

  4. Add the item to the counter sale invoice.

✓ Done · The item appears as a line on the counter sale invoice and adjusts the total.

Note: A negative-price discount item behaves differently from membership discounts on counter sale invoices.

Still not working?

Contact ServiceTitan Technical Support at go.servicetitan.com/ask with:

  • The counter sale invoice number and the POS location

  • Whether you're applying a discount or a fee, and the amount

  • The name of the service item you created and its price

  • Whether the item appears in the POS location's assigned pricebook categories

  • Which steps from this article you already tried

Want to learn more?

Process point of sale transactions from the office ›
Walks through creating and completing counter sale invoices from the office, including adding line items and collecting payment.

Can't create a counter sale invoice because the Location field is empty ›
Resolves an empty Location field by adding your employee record to the POS location so counter sale invoices can be created.