Pricing types
A pricing type is the answer to "how is this priced?" You name your own, in the words your staff already use. What you cannot invent is the arithmetic underneath — and that is the point of it.
Name your own. The maths underneath is one of three.
Three bases
Every pricing type sits on one of three bases, and the basis is what the order engine actually computes.
| Basis | What happens on the order |
|---|---|
| Per quantity | Count × price. The operator enters how many. |
| Per weight | Weight × price. The order asks for a weight. |
| Flat rate | One fixed price, however much there is. |
Four types are seeded for you across those three:
| Pricing type | Unit | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Per item | item | Per quantity |
| Per kg | kg | Per weight |
| Per set | set | Per quantity |
| Flat rate | — | Flat rate |
Per item is the default, which means a brand-new catalogue item starts on it until you say otherwise.
Naming your own
Settings → Pricing & plans → Pricing types → Add pricing type.
Name it
Per duvet, Per load, Per sqm, Per pair. This is the name that appears in the pricing-type list when somebody prices a catalogue item.
Choose the basis
Per quantity, Per weight or Flat rate. Per duvet and Per item both count things — the difference is only what the operator reads, which is exactly why naming your own is worth doing.
Give it a unit label
The word shown next to the price: item, kg, load. Optional on a flat rate, which has no unit to speak of.
Decide where it sits
Two switches. Default means new catalogue items start with this type, and only one type can hold it — setting a new default clears the old one. Available when pricing a catalog item is how you retire a type: clear it and the type disappears from the picker and shows a Hidden pill, while items already priced on it carry on untouched.
The ↑ and ↓ buttons reorder the list, and that is the order the picker offers them in. Put the two you use forty times a day at the top.
Pricing types belong to the business, so every outlet prices against the same set. Your catalogue items and their prices are what differ.
Changing and removing one
Renaming a type renames it everywhere it appears, and no price moves. If what you want is different arithmetic on a particular item, do it on the item: open it in the catalogue and pick a different type there.
Weight types have one behaviour worth knowing before you create one: an order line priced by weight asks for a weight, so somebody has to put the bag on a scale before that line has a total. If nobody weighs anything, price by count instead. Where the items and prices themselves live is covered in Services and priced items.