Setting Prices for Products

When you are creating or modifying a price list (see Managing Price Lists), you have several options for setting prices.

• Setting product prices by category

  You set a price that is applied to each product in a product category. This is useful in cases where all the products in a product category are very similar products. See To Set Prices for Products as a Mass Update.

• Setting prices by individual product

  You set a price for each product in the price list individually. See To Set Prices for Individual Products.

• Setting prices according to certain defined conditions

  You can set prices for a category of products or for individual products that are in effect only when certain conditions are met. You can condition the prices on one or two options. For example, you might want to set a price for a product (or products) that is in effect only for OEMs who are rated Platinum level. See To Set Conditional Prices for a Product.

  You can also assign multiple rules to one product. For example, you can create a rule based on partner type and partner membership level, and a second rule based on territory and approved customer types.

  Note:

  These rule options are set up during the Comergent eBusiness System implementation.

Frequently, you will use a combination of these methods to define prices for your price lists.

Note:

Before creating your price lists, you should consider how many decimal places will be required to store and display prices. For example, you may need to provide the unit price of some products to four decimal places. C3 Pricing supports entering prices with an arbitrary degree of accuracy. The Scale attribute of the UnitListPrice DataElement determines this precision. By default, this is set to "2", but you can change its value as part of your implementation of the Comergent eBusiness System. Whenever you are editing prices, you can enter this number of digits after the decimal point and this number is saved to the Knowledgebase. This precision is used to calculate all list and extended prices that are displayed to end-users. Prices that are displayed to end-users are truncated to a fixed number of decimal places. To change the number of decimal places displayed to end-users, you must change the Allowed Decimal Places system administration properties to be found under Application Settings. See CHAPTER 37, System Administration for more information.

To Set Prices for Products as a Mass Update

When you are creating a price list ( To Create a Price List) or once you have displayed a price list that you want to modify ( To Search for a Price List), you can use the following procedure to set the prices for all the products or for all products that belong to the price list from a specific category. You can also remove all products from a price list or remove all products that belong to a product category (and its children).

1. On the Price List Detail page, click Mass Update.

   The Mass Update tab is displayed.

2. Specify the scope of the update:
   1. For all products currently on the price list: click Entire Price List.
   2. For a product category: click the Category radio button. Browse for the desired product category by clicking Browse ... and use the Hierarchical Entity Picker to select the category. Check the Apply to child categories check box if you want to set the price for all products in child categories too.
3. To enter a price to be applied to all products in the scope of the update.
   1. Enter either a list price or specify a change to the current price. If you are entering pricing information for the first time (as shown in Figure 384), then you must enter at least a List Price. You can specify price changes either as an absolute change in price based on the price list currency or as a percentage change.
   2. Specify a change to the current percentage change.
   3. Specify a change to the current absolute change.
   4. Click Update.
4. To remove all the products in scope from the price list, click Delete.

At this point, you can define the individual prices for the products ( To Set Prices for Individual Products) or you can define conditional prices ( To Set Conditional Prices for a Product).

To Set Prices for Individual Products

When you are creating a price list ( To Create a Price List) or once you have displayed a price list that you want to modify ( To Search for a Price List), you can use this procedure to set the prices for individual products assigned to a list.

1. Click Assign Products.

2. On the Assign Products tab, you can search for a particular product or you can browse for it using the ... button.
   1. To search for a product:
      • Either select Product ID and enter the some or all of the product ID (use * as a wild card). Click Search. The search results are displayed on the price list.
      • Or select Category and click ... to browse for the category within which you want to search. Note that if you search for products within a category, then the results will not include child products of aggregated products in this category.
   2. To browse for a product, click .... Use the Hierarchical Entity Picker window to navigate to the product and select it. Click Done.
   3. Click Search.

      The selected products are listed.

3. Define the pricing information.

   If you are entering pricing information for the first time (as shown in Figure 379), then you must enter at least a List Price.

   You can enter a Start Date and End Date for each price line item. See Price List Line Item Effectivity Dates for more information on how price list line item effectivity dates are used.

   If a price line item already exists for a product ID and you want to specify a different price for a particular date range, then you can clone the price line item as follows:

   1. Click the Clone button:

1. In the Clone Price List Item dialog box, enter a Start Date and End Date for the new price list item.

1. Click Clone.
2. Find the newly cloned price list item, and enter the list price.

   You can enter a modification to the price expressed as either a percentage change or as an absolute amount. To enter a positive (+) number, simply enter the number. Do not add a plus (+) sign before the number. To enter a negative number, enter a minus (-) before the number (for example, -50). A positive (+) number represents the percentage or absolute amount to be added to the list price. A negative (-) number represents a percentage or absolute amount to be discounted from the list price.

4. Repeat these steps for each product whose prices you want to define.
5. Click Assign.

Conditional Pricing

You can set prices that depend on the user and their cart that further refine the prices that they see. If you create pricing rules for a product, then the pricing information you entered for each product ID in the Assign Products and Edit Items tabs will apply to customers who satisfy none of the pricing rules that you create for the product.

To Set Conditional Prices for a Product

When you are creating a price list ( To Create a Price List) or once you have displayed a price list that you want to modify ( To Search for a Price List), you can use this procedure to set conditional prices for individual products. You can define quantity tiers and one or more one- or two-option rules that define certain conditions for prices.

1. On the Price List Detail page, click Edit Items.

   The Edit Items tab is displayed.

2. Either search for the product or browse for it by clicking Browse ....
3. Click on the Rule button for that product to open the Conditional Rules page.

You can use this page to set volume discounts based on the quantity ordered and to set rules-based rule options. The rule options available to you are set up at implementation time. They may include options such as partner type and territory.

4. To create quantity tiers:
   1. Click Edit Quantity Tiers.
   2. Enter quantity tiers for the product by entering From Qty values: these must be whole numbers and the From Qty value must increase.
   3. Enter list prices for each tier and any pricing adjustments for each tier. As you enter each From Qty value, the To Qty of the preceding tier is calculated automatically.
   4. Click Save.
5. To create conditional rules:
   1. Click Edit Conditional Rules.

1. Click on the First Option drop-down list and select the first rule option.

   The options available to you were determined at the time of your Comergent eBusiness System implementation.

2. Click on the Second Option drop-down list and select the second rule option.
   • To create a single option rule, select the blank option line.
   • To create a double-option rule, select a rule option. Both options must be satisfied before the pricing rule is fired.

     The options available to you were determined at the time of your Comergent eBusiness System implementation.

3. Edit the discount and the +/- amount (either as a percentage or as an absolute amount) for each row as desired.

   To enter a positive (+) number, simply enter the number. Do not add a plus (+) sign before the number. To enter a negative number, enter a minus (-) before the number (for example, -50). A positive (+) number represents the percentage or absolute amount to be added to the list price. A negative (-) number represents a percentage or absolute amount to be discounted from the list price.

4. Click Save.

6. Click Return.
7. On the Pricing List Detail page, click Save.

To see all the rules associated with all products in a price list, click Download in the Price List Detail page.

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