Everything you need to know about how price lists work is contained in the information below
 | We have a pricing structure which all sales orders utilise when working out the price for a product. The flow diagram on the left shows the order in which we check the price lists for the product you entered on the sales order, we check first at the top of the diagram. We then work our way towards the bottom, the product price. The steps the process will go through:
If you are sending orders via EDI then we will use the price provided on the EDI and we will not lookup the price lists. |
To try to simplify the process, a video on how pricing works is below, we suggest you watch this prior to reading about pricing in the tabs below
Price List Groups
Before you set up a price list you need to have a price list group available or you may need to add one.
Within the customer, you will set up which price list group the customer will use.
The groups are used to allow you to define a standard price list and perhaps a promotion list.
You should not have more than one standard and one promotional price list per group in use at any one time, but should you do this then the system will still use it but it will take the first price it finds for the product.
In situations where you wish to split a Trade price list out into different producers or countries you could in theory have one for each producer, this will work but try to ensure the same product does not appear in multiple lists.
Price Lists
The simplest way to obtain an overview of the price lists is to use the menu options in the sales admin menus, either option the price lists OR the customer price lists and you will see a list of the available lists beneath it.
If you choose to VIEW a price list it will open in the maintenance screen allowing you to edit and save the list.
When you open the price list you will be presented with the form below, which has three distinct sections
Header - with the name, type, expiry date
Products - a list of the products on the price list, and when you select a product you will see the prices
Price Window - only shows when you select a product, details the prices, and the bands those prices will apply.
You have to set the price list up before you set up a new customer to use the price list. When adding a new customer you then specify the price list group that the customer will use. See the price list group tab for more information on what the price list group is.
Option | How to use this field |
|---|---|
Live | Ability to archive a list, if you do not wish to use the list then you simply mark it as NOT live by leaving the box unchecked. |
En Primeur | If this is an EP price list you need to tick this box. |
Promotional | You can have a main and a promotional price list for any price list group. Promotional prices tend to operate particular dates and will be checked first before a standard price list in the group. If you have for example Trade Special (with Promotional ticked) and Trade price lists both set upin the Trade price list group and a customer is assigned to the Trade price list group then the promotional list (Trade Special) will be used in priority over the non promotional list (Trade) providing the product is on the special list and the dates are valid. |
Vat Inc Prices | We strongly recommend that you always use either VAT inclusive price lists (via the tick box) or VAT exclusive price lists. If you need to have a price list which includes VAT then use this check box but we recommend this only for ePOS sales |
Price Format
This is a mandatory field that you have to set on each list, it lets the system know how to calculate the prices.
Option Name | Description |
|---|---|
Range Price | Standard Use (used by 98% of customers) Quantity from and quantity to and use the value provided in the fields |
Range % Discount | Quantity from and to and provide a discount of x% from the product standard price |
Range Price Discount | Quantity from and to and provide a discount of £0.00 from the product standard price |
Cost plus % | Use this one with caution. Product purchase price plus a % |
Web Price Group
You can specify multiple price lists for the web extract, which are marked as Web price lists in just the same way as we do with a normal list, and this field just aids the identification of the price list for your web developer.
Choose from
A - Web Price
B - Web Special Price
Outputs
We can generate a price list containing all the prices in the list, this will produce a PDF document containing several pages
Introductions
Contacts
Price Lists are in Producer order and contain producer notes, region notes, product notes as well as descriptions and pricing.
Ensure the introduction for this is loaded into the system (witihin system configuration) and that the users you wish to see on the contacts are switched on in the user login table.
A PDF will be emailed to you and you only need to decide whether to
Update UB Price Button which will auto calculate the UB for the line when the DP prices are modified.
Customer Price Lists (Contract Pricing)
The setup of a customer price list is nearly exactly the same as a normal price list setup with the following differences.
You can not have promotional price lists.
You have to specify a specific customer that whom this price list is being used.
Within Commerce you can open the customer-specific pricing list, this is a complete list of all the customers own price lists available with the ability to search and filter and the option to then VIEW an individual price list
A customer should only have a single price list and these price lists can be in different currencies to your base currency
A customer should only have a single price list
The price list does not have to be in your base currency
The form when opened will show a list of all the price lists that you have available on the system.
When you open the form you can maintain the customer contract price list, expand the section below to learn more about this :
When you open the price list you will be presented with the form below, which has three distinct sections
Header - with the name, type, expiry date
Products - a list of the products on the price list, and when you select a product you will see the prices
Price Window - only shows when you select a product, details the prices, and the bands those prices will apply.
The ability to replicate customer price lists is available, you simply have to specify the new customer to whom this price list will apply to.
Price Maintenance Form
We provide an overall view form that allows you to see information about product prices or price lists. This is a single screen allowing you a much better overview of the pricing, along with key information on the costs and charges, the concept was to allow you to have a better idea before you start updating prices.
This form provides you with global access to all the prices on a single screen allowing you to edit the sales price for the product.
There are two options available you either maintain the prices for
Product (the standard product price)
Price List (a specifically named price list)
Once you decide what you wish to maintain select your option and search and you will see the products listed below
There is an UPDATE PRODUCT COST option on the bottom left of the form, this will update the product purchase prices to be the prices from the LAST purchase of the goods. So if you have not been maintaining those prices, this will refresh those to what you last paid for the goods.
For product price maintenance a full list of all products will appear
or if you pick a price list then you will only see those items on the price list and then you are able to update the NEW SALES PRICE field based on the information displayed on the forms
Once you have finished remembering to hit the SAVE button, do not just close the form otherwise nothing will be updated.
Remember you can always use the price list export functionality where you can output in excel and reload the price list directly back into the system.
Field Explanation
Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
Product Code | This has to be a unique product code for the product. |
Description | Description of the product (50 characters maximum) Remember do not include the vintage, pack sizes, item sizes, brand, producer as those are all within their own fields. e.g. Wine Name |
SPC | Singles per case |
SS | Single Size e.g. 75.00 for standard wine bottle, 1.00 for marketing material |
Vintage | Vintage or the Year You can also enter NA or NV |
Last Landed Price GBP | The price at which the goods were last received |
Last Landed Date | The Last Date this stock was receipted |
Last Ex Cellar Price GBP | The Last Price used for Back to Back or Ex Cellar Orders. |
Last Ex Cellar Date | The Last Date a Batch to back or Ex Cellar Order was placed. |
Product UB Cost GBP | The Current Underbond Price for the Product. |
DP Sales Price | The Duty Paid Price. |
Suggested DP Price @ Margin | Based on the global standard margin factor, this is the Suggested Duty Paid Price Margin. |
Suggested Ex Cellar Sales Price @ Margin | Based on the global standard margin factor, this is the Suggested Price Margin for Ex Cellar Orders. |
New Sales Price | Your new standard sales price for the product per case, we will work out the single and underbond pricing automatically. |
Duty Per Unit | Excise duty expected for this case at this time |
CCT Per Unit | Customs duty expected for this case (at this time) |
RHD | From the warehouse group, this is the cost to receipt this case into the warehouse |
Rent | From the warehouse group, this is the cost per case per week for storage rental charges |
Freight | Based on the Country or the Region this would be the price per case for the freight, usually defined as standard pricing |
Insurance | Based on the country or the region this is the proce per case for the insurance, generally this is a common value for all countries based on your goods in transit insurance divided by number of cases per annum |