Discount & Sale Price Guides
Supporting guides for Discount & retail pricing. Each article explains concepts; calculators handle the arithmetic.
- How Discount Percent Works — Learn how list price, discount rate, and sale price relate—with formulas, mental math checks, and links to our discount calculator.
- Stacked Discounts Explained — Why 20% off plus 10% off is not 30% off—sequential discount math, compounding, and common retail mistakes.
- Sale Price vs Discount Rate — When shoppers know the final price and merchants know the markdown—how to move between sale price and discount percent.
- Discount vs Margin vs Markup — Clarify discount (customer savings), margin (profit on selling price), and markup (profit on cost) so reports stay consistent.