You may give your customers Special Prices on the following: all Manufacturers, a whole Manufacturer’s line, part of a line, a single part number or a unit of measure of a specific part number. The Special Price may be for a fixed amount or a percentage off of a Price Code.

In the Manufacturer field (1), enter an asterisk (*) to give a discount to all Manufacturers. This feature can reduce the amount of maintenance required to enter Special Pricing. Remember the rule - the first match will discontinue searching for a Special Price. So if you are entering other Mfr. Codes, they must be entered first before entering the asterisk (*). The Manufacturer field (1) will accept up to 9,999 lines.

You have the ability to give a negative discount (markup) by Manufacturer or Part Number. This will have the affect of increasing rather than decreasing the price. To enter a negative discount, simply enter a <-> in front of the discount amount. Example: -2 is negative 2 percent which actually is a markup of 2%.

If a Price Code is entered after the Discount Percentage when using the Manufacturer entry, the Discount will be taken off of the Price Code entered. If the Price Code is Blank, the Discount is taken off of the Customer's Price Code assigned in "Customer Entry" in ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (6.1.1 field 17).

Part Number special pricing (field 2) will display the Calculated Part Price in the Fixed Price column if a % Discount or Price Code is entered for the line item. To distinguish between actual Fixed Prices that are entered and calculated prices an asterisk "*" is added to the price displayed if it is a calculated price.

This is the same type of display that is available in the "Special Pricing for Customers Listing" (2.2.2.5) using option "Show Calc Part Price".

You may assign a different Price Code for a particular Manufacturer or Part Number.

You may override just one Part Number’s price, or a series of Part Numbers. If the manufacturer is also listed with a special price, the Part Number takes precedence over the manufacturer. You may enter an End Date for the special pricing of a specific part number. The “Salesperson Commission Report” (2.1.15) will use this End Date to determine the Price Code to use when retrieving the commission percentage by Manufacturer (Mfr) Price Code. The Mfr Price Code is setup in the “Salesperson Code Entry” (2.2.1.1 field 4 page 2). When running the “Salesperson Commission Report” (2.1.15), if the Date Entered of an Order is less than or equal to this End Date, or the End Date is blank and a Price Code is entered, then that Price Code will be used to calculate the commission.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Remember, when your price changes for items given a fixed price, that price is will not change until you manually change it. It is recommended to give discount percentages rather than fixed prices. There is a password prompt for the Fixed Price field when entering part number special pricing. Enter <P> to create a password for this field. Fixed prices that remain unchanged for long periods of time will negatively affect profit margins as the cost increases. Therefore, adding a password may prevent entering a fixed price.

There are many times when Customers get the same pricing scheme (example: C-Schedule Customers). You can create Model Pricing and copy it to the individual Customers. Model Pricing is used to copy a particular Pricing scheme to many Customers. This is extremely helpful when first entering Customers and many have the same special pricing. Copying a Model Pricing to a Customer will Overwrite existing.  Special Pricing not add on to it. Type the word MODEL followed by a unique identifier (example: MODEL1, MODEL2, etc.) and press <ENTER>. There are unlimited amounts of Models that you can create.

NOTE: If the Customer already has Special Pricing, the Model will Override existing Special Pricing. You will see the message: "This Customer already has a Special Price Entry. Press <O> to Overwrite: "This will Overwrite and SAVE the new Pricing scheme."

You may enter the <C> Option into Customer Number (2.2.2.4, field 1) to copy from Model or Customer into a Model or Customer.

If a Customer is Deleted in Customer Entry the corresponding Special Pricing for that Customer is automatically deleted.