Want to improve the way you run your business in Sims 4?
With retail perk point cheats, your businessmen and women can become the best at what they do in just a few minutes. Find out how these cheats work by reading on.
If you have the Get to Work expansion for The Sims 4, you probably know that your Sims can open and run a business.
With it, they can earn perk points and unlock retail perks, which can make your store the most popular one in town.
But what if you don’t want to spend so much time getting points and unlocking each perk one by one?
You’re in luck, then!
There are a lot of ways to get everything you need without having to go through all the trouble.
Here are the best cheats for Sims 4 Perk Points!
What Do Perk Points Do In Sims 4?
The goal of perk points is to help your Sim’s business. Some are meant to bring in new customers, help you run your business better, and bring in more money, while others are just for decoration.
Even though employees can help you run your business, they can’t give you perk points. You can only get them by having your active Sim work. Perk points can be earned in three ways:
- Interact with customers (5 points)
- Make a sale (15 points)
- Restock an item (10 points)
If you don’t have enough points to buy a basket, it will always be grayed out in the retail perks menu. But even if you use cheats to get them, they will still be grayed out.
So, if you want to see which ones you bought, either naturally or with cheats, just move your mouse over the basket icon next to the perk you want to check.
Why Use Perk Points Cheats?
If you’re not sure if you should use cheats, here’s how many perk points you’d need to get without cheats to unlock perks:
- Placard: My First Simolean: 50 points
- Provocative Pedestal perk: 100 points
- Stunnign Sign: 150 points
- Snazzy Shirt: 200 points
- Register for Tomorrow: 250 points.
- Superfluous Surplus: 300 points.
- Additional Employee #1: 350 points
- Faster Restocking #1: 400 points
- Faster Checkouts #1: 450 points
- Placard Fobbs: 500 points
- Curious Shopper: 1000 points
- Mega Manager: 1100 points
- Additional Employee: 1200 points
- Serious Shopper: 1300 points
- Faster Checkouts:1400
- Faster Restocking: 1400 points
- Sure Sale: 2000 points
- Slick Salesman: 2100 points
- Instant Restocking: 2200 points
- Cheaper Restocking: 2500 points
As you can see, some perks are easy to get, but it will take a long time to buy a perk that costs 2200 points. So, cheats are the way to go if you want to get things done quickly.
They are permanent for the business to which you apply them, unless you sell your business, in which case the perks will start over from zero.
How Do Retail Perk Points Cheats Work?
For perk points cheats to work, you’ll need to turn on cheats and have your active Sim own a business. This will give them access to all perks, and they’ll be in charge of them. After they use cheats to unlock a certain perk (or perks), they will be able to buy retail perks from the build/buy menu when they go to a retail lot.
Now, unfortunately, there isn’t a cheat that works everywhere and lets you add as many points as you want, like we have with reward store points. In other words, to get any of the perks, you will have to use a cheat that is only for that perk, since cheats don’t actually change the number of perk points.
So, if you have 0 perk points before using cheats, you will still have 0 perk points after using cheats. Cheats let you get perks, but they don’t change your points overall. Use bucks as an example. CustomerBrowseTime unlock perk True cheat will only give you the Curious Shopper perk. It will not give you an extra 1000 perk points.
If you decide to sell the business, the perks you bought will be taken away. If you want the perks to still work in that business, you will have to play as a new owner and use the perk cheats all over again.
The Perk Points Cheats
First things first: to open the cheat console, press Ctrl + Shift + C while playing the game. When the text field opens, type testingcheats true into it and press enter. Now, all you have to do is copy the cheat code for the perk you want to unlock, and you’re done!
Checklist:
- bucks.unlock_perk StorePlacard_1 true
This cheat lets you get the My First Simoleon Placard perk. It usually costs 50 perk points and gives you a cute little banner in Build Mode that you can use to decorate your store and brag about how well it did when it first opened. - bucks.unlock_perk PedestalMimic true
With this cheat, you can use the Provocative Pedestal perk to get a stylish pedestal for your store. Items have never looked so good on a shelf! - bucks.unlock_perk SignageMimic true
Unlocks the perk “Stunning Sign,” which lets you buy a pretty cool sign in Build Mode. This sign increases the store’s Curb Appeal, which means that more people will be coming to your Sim’s store! - bucks.unlock_perk RetailOutfit true
The Snazzy Shirt perk lets your employees in CAS mode get an extra shirt. Both male and female Sims would look great in this Snazzy Shirt. - bucks.unlock_perk RegisterMimic true
With the Register of Tomorrow perk, you can get a Cash Register that is up-to-date for your store. It not only looks very modern, but it also makes the Curb Appeal even better. - bucks.unlock_perk DecreaseRestocking_Temporary true
With the perk “Superfluous Surplus,” you can restock items for less money for the next 12 hours. This means that your Sim will make more money. Scroll down for the full-time version of this perk! - bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWorker_1 true
This is one of the most useful cheats when you first start your store. It gives you access to the perk Additional Employee #1, which helps a lot when your Sim is too busy to do everything. - bucks.unlock_perk RestockSpeed_Small true
This gives you access to the small perk Faster Restocking, which makes restocking sold items 33% faster. There is a perk that is even better than this one, but it will still save your Sims a lot of time! - bucks.unlock_perk CheckoutSpeed_Small true
Faster Checkouts is another very helpful perk (small). It helps your Sims get out of the store faster. You can find an upgraded version of this perk further down the list. - bucks.unlock_perk StorePlacard_2 true
The perk Placard: Fobbs 500 is for you if you want to get all the cool decorations for your store. - bucks.unlock_perk CustomerBrowseTime true
With this cheat, you can get the Curious Shopper perk, which makes customers stay in your store longer and gives your Sim more chances to sell things. - bucks.unlock_perk ImproveManagementSocials true
The Mega Manager perk makes it easier to organize your employees and talk to them. Could even save your Sims money, since you wouldn’t have to pay them as much. - bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWorker_2 true
This cheat gives you access to the perk Additional Employee #2, which lets you hire an extra worker for your store. You might want to get this benefit once you start making a lot of money. - bucks.unlock_perk CustomerPurchaseIntent true
The Serious Shopper is also a great perk because it makes it easier and faster to make sales. Customers will come into your store ready to buy something, so you won’t have to spend much time chasing them down. - bucks.unlock_perk CheckoutSpeed_Large true
This perk is like the perk Faster Checkouts, but it is better and faster. It makes it possible for your Sims to ring up customers even faster, so they can make more sales all the time. - bucks.unlock_perk RestockSpeed_Large true
With this cheat, you can get the second, better version of the Faster Restocking perk, which will save your Sims even more time when they are restocking. - bucks.unlock_perk SureSaleSocial true
This retail perk is like a cheat by itself because it lets your Sim use the Sure Sale interaction on customers, so you can be sure they will buy something. Hint: Use it when people are near expensive items to make more money. - bucks.unlock_perk ImproveRetailSocials true
Unlocks the Slick Salesman perk for your Sims, which lets them become sales gurus. Customers will want to buy things even faster without having to be persuaded much. - bucks.unlock_perk InstantRestock true
With the Instant Restocking perk, your Sims won’t have to spend as much time restocking items. Your Sims can now focus on making even more sales, which will greatly increase their profits. - bucks.unlock_perk DescreaseRestockingCost true
The most valuable benefit is the last one on this list. It’s like the perk “Superfluous Surplus,” but it lasts forever and cuts the cost of restocking sold items by 25% instead of just for 12 hours.
Other Helpful Retail Cheats
If you want to get perk points in a more natural way, without using cheats to buy perk points, but you still need help getting perk points, we’ve got your back.
You’ll want your employees to help you with things like cleaning and ringing up customers so that your Sims can focus on what’s important, like talking to customers to earn perk points.
Here are the main skills you’ll want your employees to have:
- Maintenance Skill – This skill will make Sims restock items and clean the store faster. To max it out, type stats.set_skill_level retail_workethic 5
- Sales Skill – When you want to get better at pitching a sale and ringing up customers, this is the skill you’ll want to develop. To max it out, type stats.set_skill_level retail_maintenance 5
- Work Ethic – Make Sims develop this one, and they will stop slacking at work. To max it out, type stats.set_skill_level retail_sales 5
To get things done quickly, try adding an employee to your family by clicking “Ctrl+Shift” on the employee and choosing “Add to Family.”
Then, use cheats on them, and when you’re done, click “Remove from Family.” You can use any number from 1 to 5 instead of 5, depending on what level of skill you want Sims to reach.
Final Words
The Perk Points Cheats can help you save a lot of time and set up your Sims’ dream business. Every business really needs the perks, so it’s important to get them as soon as possible.
So, why go through all that trouble every time you open a shop?
Even more so when there is such an easy way to cheat your way to success.
