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About Simple and Tiered Volume Discounts

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When you define a volume discount, you select one of two discount methods:

Simple. Applies a discount percent to every instance of the item in a quote or order line item if the quantity meets the volume discount quantity requirement. If the line item quantity satisfies this requirement, the entire quantity qualifies for the volume discount.
Tiered. Applies the discount percentage defined by each Volume Discount Line Item record to the quantity of items defined in that Volume Discount Line Item record.

For example, you create a volume discount with line items that:

Apply a 10% discount when the quantity is five to 10 items
Apply a 20% discount when the quantity is 11 to 20 items
Apply a 30% discount when the quantity is 21 items or more

If this were a simple volume discount, and if the customer bought 23 items, the customer would get a discount of 30% on all 23 items.

If this were a tiered volume discount, and if the customer bought 23 items, the customer would get no discount on items one to four, a 10% discount on items five to 10, a 20% discount on items 11 to 20, and a 30 percent discount on items 21 to 23.

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