Defining an Ancillary Pricing Rule for a Parent Customer

The Pricing Rule screen appears. It contains the following fields:

The Ancillary Pricing Rule screen appears. It contains the following sections:

• Customer Information - Displays the information about the parent customer. It contains the following fields:

  Field Name	Field Description
  Parent Customer Information	Indicates the parent customer for whom you are defining an ancillary pricing rule.
  Pricing Rule Type	Indicates the pricing rule type using which you are defining an ancillary pricing rule.

• Main - Used to specify basic details about the ancillary pricing rule. In addition it allows you to define pricing for different types of ancillary charges. It contains the following fields:

  Field Name	Field Description	Mandatory (Yes or No)
  Price Item	Used to indicate the price item for which you want to define an ancillary pricing rule.	Yes
  Pricing Start Date	Used to specify the date from when the ancillary pricing rule is effective. Note: The pricing start date cannot be later than the pricing end date.	Yes
  Pricing End Date	Used to specify the date till when the ancillary pricing rule is effective. Note: The pricing end date cannot be earlier than the pricing start date.	No
  Rate Option	Used to indicate the rate option that you want to use while defining pricing for the price item.	Yes
  Pass Through without Markup or Markdown	Used when markup or markdown should not be calculated for the ancillary charge. Note: This field is enabled when the Rate Option field is selected.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required when you want to calculate the ancillary pricing without the pass through charge while defining the ancillary pricing rule.

  The following fields appear when the Pass Through without Markup or Markdown option is not selected. It contains the following fields:

  Field Name	Field Description	Mandatory (Yes or No)
  Billable Charge Line Type	Used to indicate the billable charge line type using which you want to create the ancillary pricing rule. Note: The Search () icon appears corresponding to this field. On clicking the Search icon, the Billable Line Type Search window appears. On specifying the billable charge line type, the description of the billable charge line type appears corresponding to the Billable Charge Line Type field.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required while creating a pricing arrangement with or without rate based billable charge line type.
  Billable	Used to indicate whether the ancillary charge is eligible for billing or not.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required while creating a pricing arrangement with or without the Markup or Markdown Type field and the Rate Based option.
  Rate Based	Used to indicate whether the ancillary charge is calculated using a particular rate.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required while creating a pricing arrangement with the Rate Based option.
  Rate	Used to indicate the rate for calculating the ancillary charge. Note: This field is enabled when the Rate Based option is selected.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required when Rate Based option is selected.
  Pricing Strategy	Used to indicate the price calculation strategy which should be applied while defining the ancillary pricing rule. The valid values are: Markup Markdown None	No
  Markup or Markdown Type	Used to indicate the type of charge which should be applied while defining the ancillary pricing rule. The valid values are: Flat Amount Percentage Note: This field is enabled when the Pricing Strategy field is selected.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required when the Pricing Strategy field is selected.
  Amount / Percentage	Used to specify the actual proportion of the charge that should be applied while defining the ancillary pricing rule.	Yes (Conditional) Note: This field is required when the Markup or Markdown Type field is selected.

• Characteristics - Used to define the characteristics for an ancillary pricing rule.