# Discounts

**URL:** <https://forum.manager.io/t/discounts/8464>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 29, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/discounts/8464 "2017-01-29T01:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![aboveall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/aboveall/32/867_2.png) [@aboveall](https://forum.manager.io/u/aboveall)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/discounts/8464/1 "2017-01-29T01:02:56Z")

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A question and would like an opinion. Quite often for some of our values customers I will take some money off of a Sales Invoice. I created a non-inventory item ‘Discount’ to reflect the money off. Since the upgrade it is now become ‘Suspense’. Basically a discount is an expense should I just create an item ‘Discount’ under Expense?

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**Author:** ![Brucanna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/brucanna/32/1960_2.png) [@Brucanna](https://forum.manager.io/u/Brucanna)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/discounts/8464/2 "2017-01-29T01:58:55Z")

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Create a P&L account called “Sales Discount” - now this can be an income or an expense account depending if you want to show/see total Income as gross or nett of the discount. You can toggle the account between income & expense to see what works best for you

Then go to your non–inventory item Discount and allocate that P&L account to the item.

Now you have two choices on the Sales Invoice, select the P&L account directly or select the non-inventory Item, a plus with the non-inventory item is that you can provide a “Marketing” description - Valued Customer Discount.

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In fact, you could create several non-inventory Discount items with different messages:  
Summer Sale Discount  
Stock Clearance Discount  
Etc.

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**Author:** ![aboveall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/aboveall/32/867_2.png) [@aboveall](https://forum.manager.io/u/aboveall)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/discounts/8464/3 "2017-01-29T13:47:07Z")

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Nice breakdown thank you!

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**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/discounts/8464/4 "2023-01-18T15:29:06Z")

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Closed on January 18, 2023, 3:29pm UTC