What discounting really costs.
Discounts feel small deal by deal. Across a year, they add up. See what discounting costs you and what better negotiation could recover.
Negotiation training helps reps hold price and trade concessions instead of cutting them. Every discount dollar is a dollar of gross profit.
Illustrative estimate. Assumes a typical program investment for a team of your size and improvements in line with results reported by Accelerain Training clients. Actual results depend on your team, market, and execution.
How this estimate is calculated.
Discount dollars come straight off gross profit. A business doing $12M at an average 14% discount hands back roughly $2M of list-price value a year. Recovering even a third of that through better negotiation puts six figures back every year, without adding a single new deal.
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Common questions about Cost of Discounting Calculator.
01How do you calculate the cost of discounting?
Take the discount you give as a share of list price and apply it to your annual sales to get the list-price value handed back to buyers. Because discounts come out of margin, that figure is also roughly the gross profit lost each year.
02How much can better negotiation recover?
Reps trained on value framing and concession trading typically hold 20-40% more of their list price on discounted deals. Across a full year of bookings that recovers a meaningful share of lost margin without closing a single extra deal.
03Why is discounting so expensive?
A discount is pure margin. A dollar off the price is a dollar off gross profit, with no cost to offset it. That is why even a few points of average discount can equal a large share of annual profit.
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