There are two types of pricing available to you. Basic pricing lets you specify the same prices for a given SKU to all users. If you require a more sophisticated pricing system, use price lists to create a set of product and SKU prices that are visible to a set of users, such as all members of a given organization. For example, a price list called East Coast shows one set of prices to users who live in the appropriate states and prices from a different list, such as West Coast, are shown to users who live there. Price lists can inherit prices from base lists, which limits the number of prices you need to enter manually. The other benefit to price lists is the different types of pricing it provides: you can set an individual price or define different prices depending on how many items are purchased.
By default, Consumer Commerce customers use basic pricing and Business Commerce customers use price lists. If you have basic pricing, when you access a SKU, a SKU Pricing tab holds properties for setting a list price and sale price. For users with price lists enabled, products and SKUs display the prices assigned for each price list in the Price List Pricing tabs. Also, two price list views are provided for creating, modifying, and deleting price lists.
If you are a Consumer Commerce customer and you want to switch from basic pricing to price lists, follow the instructions provided in the Setting Up Price List Functionality in ATG Consumer Commerce subsection of the Using Price Lists section in the Using and Extending Pricing Services chapter of ATG Commerce Programming Guide.
Business Commerce customers who wish to use basic pricing need only use the ATG Control Center to change the value of the preCalculators property in the /atg/commerce/pricing/ItemPricingEngine to non-price list calculators.
Regardless of the type of pricing you use, you need to configure other pricing resources to implement, display, and calculate order prices. The pricing services provided by ATG Commerce are flexible and comprehensive; see the Using and Extending Pricing Services chapter of ATG Commerce Programming Guide for guidance.
