Under the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act No. 9994, Senior Citizens (SC) and Person With Disabilities (PWD) are entitled to a 20% discount and an exemption from the 12% Value-Added Tax (VAT) on the sale of goods and services.
KaHero POS now has a feature that allows you to apply Senior Citizen/PWD discounts to your transaction tickets. You don't need to manually add the discounts through listings.
NOTE: This is only applicable to businesses in the Philippines and are VAT registered.
NOTE: This is feature is only available to PRO-subscribed users.
Enable the Senior Citizen/PWD Discount to apply Senior Citizen/PWD Discount on your transactions.
Note: Contact our Team to activate the BIR feature. BIR is for accounts subscribed to PRO.
Additional Note: This is only applicable to businesses in the Philippines and are VAT registered.
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Applying SC/PWD Discounts
On the "Register", select the items to add to your ticket. Then click the discount button.
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Select "Senior Citizen/PWD Discount".
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Input the total customers that are legible to avail the discount. Specify the number of Senior Citizens or the number of Person With Disabilities. Click "Okay".
1. Total Customer - total customers that are legible to avail the SC/PWD Discount
2. Senior Citizen - number of senior citizens from the total customer
3. Person with Disability - number of persons of disabilities from the the total customer
Click okay to apply the discount on the transaction, and click Clear Discount to cancel the discount.
Example: If you have five(5) total customers availing the discount, specify the which of the 5 customers are senior citizens and which are person with disabilities.
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On your ticket, the "SC/PWD Discount" amount should reflect and deducted from the total amount.
The "SC/PWD Discount" displays the total SC/PWD + VAT.
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Proceed to payment to finish the transaction.