Discounts & bundles
Specials are fine — as long as you still get paid.
The item
Your special
Discount10%
This loses money
Selling at R0.00 leaves you R0.00
Profit margin 0.0%. Break-even discount is 0% — past that you pay to work.
Special pricecalculated
R0.00
You keepcalculated
R0.00
Margincalculated
0.0%
Biggest safe discountcalculated
0%
How we calculated this
You keepR0.00
Special price = R0 × (1 − 10%) = R0.00 Max discount = (1 − cost ÷ price) = 0%
A 20% discount does not cost you 20% of your profit — it comes straight off your profit, which is usually a much smaller number.