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2013-01-30

Price Groups

Price Groups are a method by which you can define a shared pricing for publication types and documents, either for your whole site or for a specific company. This lets you speed up the setup of new documents when they are of the same type of pricing.

To access the Price Groups settings page:

  1. Click Settings in the Menu bar.
  2. Click Price Groups in the Pricing and Ordering section.
  3. The Price Group Overview displays the current price groups that have been configured in the system.

To edit an existing price group

  1. Click on the price group name
  2. Change the price group settings
  3. Click Save.

To add a new price group

  1. Click the Add button
  2. Setup the parameters for the price group:
    • General Group
      • Name: The name that is displayed when selecting the price group.
      • Comments: The comment text is shown in the checkout overview (shopping cart) and can be used to point out pricing information to the end user.
      • Enable Pricing: Check to activate the Costs, Tax and Shipping Rates groups.
      • Global: Check for the price group to be available for all companies.
      • Company: Select a company to which the price group should apply (disabled if the Global option is checked).
    • Quantities Group: The Quantity section defines the entry method of quantities. Quantities for documents that require a database upload are determined by the number of records in the database file.
      • Entry Method: The selected option defines the quantity entry method in the shopping cart.
      • Free Entry: If selected customers can enter a custom quantity. The Minimum and Maximum fields specify a minimum and maximum quantity.
      • Predefined List (volume discount table): Customers can select a quantity from a predefined list (pull-down-menu). The quantities in the list are defined by the volume discount table.
      • Minimum: The smallest quantity a customer is allowed to order. By default this value is 1.
      • Maximum: The maximum quantity a customer is allowed to order. If set to 0 or a value smaller than the Minimum than there is no limit to the number of copies. By default this value is 0.
    • Costs Group: These options control various surcharges:
      • Use System Default: Check this option to use the system default settings for the items in the Costs section. The administrator can setup these default values in the Settings section (Pricing and Ordering).
      • Setup Costs: A surcharge incurred each time a document is produced.
      • Rush Rate: The Rush Rate is a surcharge for rush orders.
    • Tax Group: This section controls document specific tax settings.
      • Taxable: If checked the document is subject to taxation.
      • Tax Rate Profile: Defines the tax profile applicable to this document. This is used when specific document types have a special tax rate.By default this field set to Default. In this case the rate is defined by the tax profile assigned to the department or company of the logged on user.
    • Shipping Rates Group:Shipping Rates are calculated based on the total weight of the shopping cart and the shipping rate profiles assigned to the company or the department of the logged on user. The options found in this section control the document specific properties regarding the calculation of shipping charges.
      • Calculate Shipping Charges: Selects whether shipping charges should be calculated for the print job related to this document.
      • Weight Per Unit: Enter the weight per unit for the document. In the checkout cart this unit is multiplied with the quantity of the job to calculate its total weight.
  3. Click Save.