MoveBoardSettings › Pricing & calculator › Promotions runs a sale promotion on your customer-facing pages: a banner slogan, and a higher "was" rate shown crossed out above your real rate. How the customer sees it is in Promotions and discounts.
Before you start
Anyone who can open Settings can change this page. It is kept per move type (pick it at the top). Nothing is saved until you press Save.
The cards
Bloomingdale's discount
- Bloomingdales sale promotion off/on — the promotion's main switch.
Promotion slogans — The banner words the customer sees
- Enable hourly moves promotion slogan and Promotion slogan for hourly moves banner.
- Enable long distance moves promotion slogan and Promotion slogan for long distance moves banner.
- Each slogan box shows only while its switch is on.
Discounts — Shows a higher 'was' rate crossed out above your real rate, each with its own on/off
- Crossed-out rate shows — what the crossed-out hourly rate is. Two choices: - A percentage above the rate paid (how every company starts): the hourly percent below. - Your regular rate for that crew and trucks: your own Regular rate. The hourly percent box is hidden; its switch stays as Crossed-out hourly rate.
- An hourly percent and a long-distance percent (0–100, up to two decimals), each with its own switch, and the ticks for where the discount shows (the rates table on your website, the slogans). The rates table and the banners on your website: Show your rates on your website. Get the code for your website, under Show rates table on the website, opens Website & forms › Quote forms › Install at the Rates table tags.
- Copy these values to other move types copies the Crossed-out rate shows choice too.
How the "was" rate is worked out
A percentage above the rate paid: the real rate ÷ (1 − the percent), in whole dollars. A $150 real rate with 25% shows $200 crossed out above $150. One percent fits one crew size only. For example, Discount $129 against Regular $149 for 2 movers is 13.42%. For 3 movers the same 13.42% turns a $179 Discount rate into a $207 "was" rate, but your Regular rate for 3 movers might be $199.
Your regular rate for that crew and trucks: use this when you price days from the Discount level of your price calendar (Settings › Pricing & calculator › Rates). On a Discount day the crossed-out rate is the rate the calculator would charge for the same day, crew and trucks at your Regular level. It uses the same rate table and rules. For example, with Regular $149 / $199 / $259 and Discount $129 / $179 / $229 for 2 / 3 / 4 movers with 1 truck:
| Crew | Customer pays | Crossed out |
|---|---|---|
| 2 movers, 1 truck | $129 | $149 |
| 3 movers, 1 truck | $179 | $199 |
| 4 movers, 1 truck | $229 | $259 |
| 2 movers, 2 trucks | $179 | $199 |
- The travel rate is crossed out the same way when your Regular travel rate is higher. The "before" total on the customer's page uses those regular rates.
- On a Regular, Peak or any other day nothing is crossed out. Nothing is crossed out either when the regular rate is not higher than the rate the customer pays (for example a rate you typed on the order).
- A long-distance move's rate per unit has no crew rate to compare, so it keeps the long-distance percent.
Your real price never changes. The promotion only changes what's shown: the quote emails, the customer's page, the Order for Service and the website quote result.
Orders keep what they were made with
- An order made under A percentage above the rate paid keeps its percent, even if you switch to the regular rate later.
- An order made under Your regular rate for that crew and trucks keeps its own crossed-out figures. They change only when the order's rate changes: a new crew size, truck count or move date. Changing your rate tables or this page later does not change what an existing order shows.