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About Pricing Administration

Siebel ePricer allows you to work with:

• Price Lists. Create price lists and assign them to users. Price lists are created separately from products, so you can use different prices for the same products. For more information, see Creating and Assigning Price Lists.
• Volume Discounts. Give customers a discount if they buy in volume. For example, if a customer buys more than one hundred units, the customer can get a 10% discount. For more information, see Creating Volume Discounts.
• Promotions and Deals. Create promotional deals for product. For example, if you are introducing a new product, you can offer a 10% discount during the first month that the product is available. For more information, see Creating Promotions and Deals.
• Pricing Reports. Create a variety of reports to track your pricing policies. For more information, see Creating Pricing Reports.
• Customizable Products. Siebel ePricer allows you to define pricing for two types of customizable products:
  • Component-Based Products. Customers can customize products by choosing components. For example, when a customer buys a computer, the customer can customize it by choosing to add peripherals such as a CD drive. For more information, see Setting Up Component-Based Pricing.
  • Attribute-Based Products. Customers can customize products by choosing attributes. For example, when a customer buys a tee-shirt, the customer can customize it by choosing its color. For more information, see Setting Up Attribute-Based Pricing.

In addition, Siebel ePricer lets you work with pricing models and pricing factors, which allow you to create more complex pricing adjustments. Siebel ePricer allows you to create the following types of pricing factors:

• Single. Includes a single rule that applies a price adjustment to individual line items in a quote, order, agreement, or component-based product. For example, you can give the customer a discount if the extended price of a line item is more than $1,000. For more information, see Creating Pricing Models and Pricing Factors.
• Matrix-Based. Equivalent to several single-type pricing factors. You create a Siebel business component with records specifying multiple rules for price adjustments, and the pricing factor searches this business component to determine which price adjustments to apply. You can import information into this business component from a pricing table in another application, such as an Excel spreadsheet. For more information, see Matrix-Based Pricing Factors.
• Bundling. Allows you to apply price adjustments that depend on the selection of bundles of products. For example, if a customer buys a dining room table and four chairs, the customer can get a 10% discount on a sideboard. For more information, see Bundling and Aggregate Pricing Factors.
• Aggregate. Allows you to apply price adjustments that depend on the entire quote or order. For example, you can give a customer a 10% discount if the total price of a quote is over $100,000. For more information, see Bundling and Aggregate Pricing Factors.
• Script-Based. Allows you to use a script (in Siebel eScript, Siebel Visual Basic, or other scripting languages) to define more complex pricing factors. These might include complex mathematical calculations, multiple business components, or a compound rule on multiple fields in the same business components. For more information, see Script-Based Pricing Factors.

Siebel ePricer also lets you price items that are not products in your Siebel application. For example, you can price literature or products that exist in other systems but not in your Siebel application. For more information about nonproduct pricing, see the section External Integration.