One price on every tag. And a real choice for every vendor.
Dual pricing usually forces an all-or-nothing decision: put every vendor on card pricing, or let the store eat the processing fees. Vendor Choice Pricing gives each vendor the decision — and makes sure the card fee is accounted for either way.
Stop printing two prices
Labels show a single price — the card price. When the customer pays cash or check, Syncrostore applies the cash discount automatically at checkout.
The cashier does not calculate anything, does not look anything up, and does not need to know which vendors participate.
One item. One tag. One displayed price.
A $20.00 item
The cash discount is applied by the system based on tender. Nothing is written on the tag about it.
Not every vendor wants dual pricing. The store still pays the fee.
That is the trap. A vendor opts out on principle, their merchandise sells on a card, and the processing cost lands on the store. Vendor Choice removes the trap without removing the vendor’s choice.
Their merchandise uses card pricing
Tags display the single card price. Customers paying cash or check automatically receive the cash discount at checkout. The card price covers the processing cost on their sales.
Their merchandise stays single-priced
Tags display the normal price and the customer pays the same amount on any tender. When their merchandise is bought with a card, the applicable card fee is charged to that vendor through their Syncrostore account — not absorbed by the store.
How much is your store carrying right now?
Put in your monthly card volume and your own effective rate. Thirty seconds, no email, and nothing quoted.
Put simply: vendors are not required to opt into dual pricing, but opting out does not shift the cost of their card transactions back to the store. A genuine choice for them, one consistent policy for you.
Your three store pricing options
With Vendor Choice, owners and admins manage each vendor’s participation directly from the Vendor details screen.
A mixed basket handles itself
One transaction can contain merchandise from vendors who participate and vendors who don’t. Syncrostore applies the right pricing and fee treatment to each item.
Participating vendor
The item’s card price applies when the customer pays by card. On cash, check, or gift card, the cash discount is applied automatically.
Non-participating vendor
The item’s normal price applies regardless of tender. If the customer pays by card, the applicable card fee is charged to that vendor rather than passed to the customer.
The cashier never needs to know which vendors participate, separate transactions, calculate fees, or make adjustments. Syncrostore applies the correct treatment per item.
Label printing is automatic
Standard labels, batch printing, custom sizes, Label Designer — every item prints one price, and Syncrostore picks the correct one.
There is no longer any need to print separate cash and credit prices on a label.
The Tag Calculator
Especially useful for vendors who handwrite tags. It uses your store’s actual tax rate, card-pricing method, and card percentage — and in a Vendor Choice store, it knows whether that individual vendor is participating.
A participating vendor enters what they want to earn on an item, and Syncrostore calculates the single card price to write on the tag — with the full breakdown of the math.
Sometimes a vendor wants the tag to land on a specific number — $19.99. They enter the displayed price they want and Syncrostore works backward to the underlying selling price that gets closest.
For pricing a large batch: a table of common price points — $9.99, $19.99, $29.99, $49.99 and up — with the underlying price already worked out for each.
Preparing your store for Vendor Choice
We recommend giving vendors about 30 days before the change takes effect, since participating vendors may need time to retag merchandise already on the floor. Announce on September 1, for example, and set October 1 as the effective date.
During the transition
A note on existing tags
Existing two-price dual pricing tags will still scan just fine — nothing breaks on day one.
Whether the printed prices remain accurate after a move to Vendor Choice depends on whether that vendor opted in. That is the reason for the retag window.
Store owners should not absorb card fees because a vendor said no
Vendor Choice lets you address processing costs without forcing every vendor into dual pricing — and without the store covering card fees for the ones who opt out. Each vendor decides what works for their business.
Customers
See one clear price on the merchandise, and cash customers get the discount automatically at checkout.
Vendors
Choose how their card fees are handled, and see the math either way in the Tag Calculator.
Cashiers
Don’t calculate or manage any of it. The system applies the right treatment per item.
Store owners
No longer stuck absorbing card fees because a vendor doesn’t want dual pricing.
Your tags
One price, printed automatically, whichever setting the vendor is on.
In short
Vendor choice. One price on the tag. Automatic cash discounts. Card fees accounted for either way. Syncrostore handles the rest.
See Vendor Choice on your own numbers
Bring your card percentage and tax rate and we will run your real price points through the Tag Calculator on the call.