When you create a price list for the first time, it is empty, so prices need to be provided for each product and SKU. Other price lists you create can inherit all prices from existing price lists, or inherit some prices and override others. Keep in mind that changing a price in a base list also changes the price in the lists that inherit it.
One advantage of price lists is that they permit you to define one of three types of prices for each asset. Each price applies for a specific purchased quantity:
A single price applies the same price to each item regardless of how many are purchased.
A bulk price, which is a type of volume pricing, provides the same price to each item, and the price used depends on the quantity purchased.
A tiered price, which is a type of volume pricing, defines pricing levels based on quantity or weight. For example, one price applies to the first 10 items and second price applies for the next 10.
For a complete explanation of volume pricing, see the Description of Volume Pricing section in the Using Price Lists section of the Using and Extending Pricing Services chapter in the ATG Commerce Programming Guide.
There are two ways to locate prices:
If you want to modify the prices for products or SKUs in the same price list, find the price list in a price list view.
If you want to modify the prices for a given product or SKU across price lists, locate that product or SKU.
Each product, SKU, and price list has a Price List Pricing tab that contains a table for managing prices. For products and SKUs, each row represents a price list, and the type of price is visible in the Prices column. The contents of the table visible when a price list is selected depends on whether you indicate you’d like to see products, SKUs, or both listed. The rows hold prices given to a specific asset for that price list.
The way you modify a price in the table is the same regardless of how you accessed it. You use the checkboxes and links in the Prices column to indicate whether you want to enter a single price, enter a volume price, or inherit a single or volume price from a base list.
Follow these steps to update prices in pricelists:
Locate the price you want change by either selecting a product, SKU, or price list in the Search tab, the Project tab, the Multi Edit tab or Catalog view or Catalog Orphans view of the Browse tab. See Locating Assets.
Click the Price List Pricing tab.
The Details pane contains a table in which each row represents a price list.
Locate the price list you want to modify, by scrolling through the table.
If you selected a product or SKU in the Navigation pane, you can use the Hide Price Lists with Inherited Prices checkbox to display only the price lists that have unique prices.
If you selected a price list in the Navigation pane, select the type of assets you want to modify from the Show dropdown list. You can also limit the assets in the table by entering a few letters in the Starts with box and clicking List to display the assets that begin with those letters.
If you want to provide a single price, follow the steps below:
To override an inherited price, deselect the Inherited checkbox beside the price list. Then, enter the new price in the text box that displays.
To replace a price unique to this list with a new unique price, enter the new price in the text box beside the price list.
To replace a price unique to this list with an inherited price, click the Inherited checkbox beside the price list.
If you want to provide a volume price, follow the steps below:
To override an inherited price, deselect the Inherited checkbox beside the price list. Click the Vol. checkbox, then the Volume Price link in the Price column. See Defining Volume Pricing section.
To replace a volume pricing strategy unique to this list with a new volume pricing strategy, click the Volume Price link in the Price column. See Defining Volume Pricing section.
To replace a volume pricing strategy unique to this list with an inherited volume pricing strategy, click the Inherited checkbox beside the price list.
To replace an individual price unique to this list with a unique volume pricing strategy, click the Vol. checkbox in the Price column. See Defining Volume Pricing section.
Click Save.
