POS Guide: Cake
How to set up an Offline Discount:
Log in to the Cake POS Admin Portal
- Open the web-based Admin tool with your manager credentials.
Go to the Discounts Section
- Navigate to Menu → Discounts (naming may vary depending on your version).
Create a New Discount
- Click Add Discount or New Discount.
- Choose the type fixed amount and give it a name — e.g., Offline Member Discount.
- Set that it must be tapped manually.
Assign It to the POS Button Layout
- Go to Menu → Button Layout or POS Screen Setup.
- Drag or assign your new discount to an available button space on the order screen.
Save & Sync to Terminals
- Save changes in the Admin Portal.
- Perform a sync/update on your Cake POS terminals so the button appears for staff.
Test the Discount
- Ring up a test order, tap the new discount button, and confirm the discount applies correctly.
How to Pull Data
- Collecting Reports
- From the main portal, click “Reports”
- From the “Reports” menu in the lefthand navigation, click “Transactions”
- In the upper righthand corner, set the date range to the month of data you’re trying to collect (e.g. Oct 1st – Oct 31st)
- Download this data. This is the first sheet you need.
- On the transactions page, click the tab called “Discounts & Comps”
- Make sure the date range is the same as the first sheet (e.g. Oct 1st – Oct 31st)
- (Optional) using the dropdown filter, select “Reason” and filter out all non-Offline discounts.
- Download this data. This is the second sheet you need.
- Send these reports to us and we’ll do the rest for you