Various price and discount options are available in Power-Gx. When you
enter a product on a sales order, the system checks the customers price and
discount structure to determine the price they should pay for the item. The
hierarchy of price and discount options are shown below.
Price - firstly the price is retrieved by checking the following:
1. Customer Contract
2. Catalogue Price
3. Retail Price
1. The system will check the Customer
Contract first. If the product is on
their contract, and set with the 'P' (price) indicator, it will use the contract
price.
2. If not, it will search the catalogues they have been allocated, based on the
order set up on the Prices tab in Customer Details.
3. If the product is not in one of their catalogues, it will apply the retail price.
Discount - once their price has been determined, any discounts they qualify
for will be applied. The order of discounts is:
1. Customer Product Discount (regardless of catalogue)
2. Customer Product Discount (conditional on catalogue)
3. Customer Product Group Discount
4. Customer Catalogue Discount (regardless of product)
5. Brand Discount
6. Product Catalogue Discount
7. Product Colour Band Discount
8. Discount Category and Product Discount
9. Discount Category and Product Catalogue Discount
10. Global Discount Category
1. The first discount level checked is the Customer Contract. If the product is
on the contract and has the 'D' (discount) indicator, it will apply this
discount percentage.
2. If a product with the 'D' (discount) indicator appears on a customer
contract against more than one catalogue, it will apply the discount
percentage for the catalogue chosen when entering the sales order. If the
customer has been allocated catalogues on the Prices tab in Customer
Details, it will automatically select their highest priority catalogue and
check the contract for the discount percentage set against this catalogue.
3. If the product is not on their contract with the 'D' (discount) indicator, the system will check the customer's product group discount which is set up using the
Customer Product Group Discounts option on the Prices and Discounts menu.
4. Next the
system will check the customer's catalogue discount which is set on the Prices tab in Customer Details.
5. Discounts applied to a product's brand are checked next,
see Brand Discounts for more details.
6. Next the system will look to see if there are any Product Catalogue Discounts, this is set up from the
Prices and Discounts menu using the Product Catalogue Discount.
7. If none of the above discounts apply, the system will check the customers
discount category and the colour band discounts associated with it. The
discount category is assigned to the customer on the Prices tab in Customer Details . If the product entered is of a product colour band that
has a discount percentage allocated against it in Category and Colour
Band Discounts, the system will apply this discount.
8. The next discount checked is the Discount Category and Product Discount, these discounts are set against the Discount Category (as explained in point 7 above) and
the individual product.
9. The penultimate discount checked is the Discount Category and Product Catalogue Discount, these discounts are set against the Discount Category (as explained in point 7 above) and
the Product Catalogue.
10. If the product is of a colour band that does not have a specified discount
percentage within the discount category matrix, the system will apply the
customer's global discount percentage.
Please note that you may set negative discounts on some of the setups mentioned above. These negative discounts will be used to calculate
Cost Plus pricing, ie. the selling price will be calculated by adding the percentage derived from the above hierarchy to the product's cost price. This method of pricing is useful should you want to maintain a margin on products whose prices are volatile.
The system will not apply any discount to nett priced products or nett priced
catalogues. The Catalogues tab in Product Details is used to indicate
nett
products and catalogues.
You can use the Customer Price Check
program to quickly view the price a
customer pays for a specific product.
