Public holidays often lead to higher operational costs, especially due to increased labour rates.

Beacon’s new automated Public Holiday Surcharge feature empowers businesses to maintain profitability during peak periods.

By enabling businesses to apply a surcharge on food or shop items, this feature ensures that these additional expenses are covered, allowing businesses to remain open and deliver quality service without absorbing the extra costs.

To set up this feature you must be on Beacon version 3.1.2.X

When enabled, anything in the approved Groups of items will incur the pre-determined Surcharge.  This will happen automatically without any intervention from the Console Operator and will display on the customer receipt with your Surcharge Items Stock Description.

Step 1.
The Public Holiday Surcharge is controlled at a Group Level, this gives you full control over which stock items receive the Surcharge.
Go to Stock > Group Maintenance > Change
Open the relevant Stock Group and tick 'Holiday Surcharge'

 Step 2.
Check if you have a 'Surcharge' Stock Item.  If not you need to create one with the below parameters:
Stock Item Type: Sold but not Stocked (Non Stock)
Sell Price: $0.o00

Step 3.
Set up your Public Holiday charge rate
Go to:
Setup > Credit Card Surcharges
Select your Surcharge item and enter the Surcharge rate

 Step 4.
Setup your Public Holidays
Go to:
Setup > Public Holidays
Enter the date of your holiday and the description