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🏷️ Apply Discounts and Markups Correctly

Build the calculator you keep rebuilding in a spreadsheet, then put it on a link anyone can use. These prompts turn a formula into a working app: clean inputs, a result people trust, a saved record of every calculation, and an assistant that explains what the number means. Useful on your own desk, and useful in public as the page that brings people to you.
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Apply Discounts and Markups Correctly

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My team gets stacked discounts wrong and we lose money on the arithmetic. Build me a discount and markup calculator. Take a list price and let several discounts be applied in a defined order, such as a trade discount then a volume discount then a settlement discount, showing the running price after each step and what each step cost in money. Handle tax as either inclusive or exclusive with the choice stated clearly on screen. Add a reverse mode where I enter the price a customer is asking for and it tells me the total discount that represents and whether it is within policy. Always show the cost price, the resulting margin percentage and whether it is above the floor I set. Add an AI agent that explains the chain in plain language for a customer, and separately warns me when a requested price falls below margin. Automate a scheduled monthly report of average discount given by product and by person. Two logins: a salesperson who calculates, and an owner who sets floors and discount policy.

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Apply Discounts and Markups Correctly

Chain multiple discounts in order, handle tax correctly, work backwards from a target price, and show the margin left.

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Stacked discounts and tax are where mental arithmetic fails, usually in the customer favour. This does the chain properly and shows what each step cost.

What's Included

  • Chained discounts applied in order because order changes the answer.
  • Tax handled correctly inclusive or exclusive, stated clearly.
  • Reverse mode from a target price back to the discount needed.
  • An assistant that shows the margin left after the whole chain.

How To Use

  1. Apply discounts in a defined order and show each step.
  2. State whether prices include tax. Most disputes start here.
  3. Use reverse mode when a customer names a price. It protects the margin.
  4. Always show remaining margin next to the final price.

Enforce the limits with the discount approval matrix, and check the result with the profit margin calculator.

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