Discount structure
The Discount structure facility allows a highly configurable means of providing discount and price calculations for Items and customers based on a range of criteria. These calculations are used to generate the sell price of an item when the item is entered into a Sales quotation, Sales order or Sales invoice.
The Discount Structure system allows you to create an unlimited number of Discount Structure specifications that determine how a price should be calculated for an item based on who the item is being sold to and the categories into which that item belongs. A Discount Structure specification allows the entry of an expiry date, after which the Discount Structure calculation will not be used.
A single Discount Structure specification consists of the selection of one of two Key types and its value (who you are selling to), one of three Price types and its value (how to calculate price) and one of four code types and its value (what you are selling or who you buy it from).
The different types are shown in the table below:
Price Type |
Code Type |
|
---|---|---|
Customer |
Fixed price |
Item code |
All customers |
Discount |
Item's Product group |
Discount type |
Mark up |
Item's Price group |
All discount types |
|
Item’s supplier |
|
|
All item codes |
|
|
All item product groups |
|
|
All item price groups |
|
|
All item suppliers |
For example, using this table you can specify that a specific Customer will be given a discount off the list Price off any item that is a particular type of Product group. Using the table above, it is possible to use one of almost 100 possible combinations of Key type, Code type and Price type for a Discount Structure specification.