Below is the order to which price rules get applied with the use of both profiles and tiers (or groups).
PRICE PROFILE
Pricing rules for this profile will be applied as listed from the bottom up. The order of application (precedence) is Part Number rules, Attribute / Tag rules, combined Category / Manufacturer rules, then either Category rules or Manufacturer rules (depending on your selection), and last is the Global Pricing Scheme that addresses items not directly affected by a specific rule. Also, a Price Range set in the Category / Manufacturer rule always takes precedence over a rule with no Price Range set. CAUTION: Use the "Never allow customer price to exceed list price" option with care. If set, it is possible for the price profile generated customer price to be less than your supplier cost. Selling below your supplier cost is also possible when using the "sell at" part number pricing method and the "discount from list" pricing method. To avoid selling below your cost, select the "Never allow customer price to go below cost" option at the price profile level. NOTE: The "Discount from List" pricing method relies on accurate list pricing which is not always consistent and guaranteed within supplier-provided catalogs. In the event that a list price is not available for an item, the "Exceed List Rule" cannot be applied. So any item without a list price will not have "Exceed List" price protection.
'PRICE TIERS
Price Tiers make managing large customer bases easier by assigning larger groups of accounts to tiers and creating smaller custom price variations at the Price Profile level if and when needed. Tiers do not take the place of Price Profiles, all accounts will still need to be assigned to a Price Profile for Tiers to work. When the tier is assigned to an account the rule structure looks like this (from granular to broadest):
- Global Line Item Pricing (most specific, always applies)
- Price Profile - Part # specific rule
- Price Profile - Attribute Tags
- Price Profile - Category / Manufacturer
- Price Tier - Part # specific rule
- Price Tier - Category / Manufacturer
- Price Profile - Global settings (broadest rules, catches items without other rules)
GLOBAL PRICING
If you use Global Line Item Pricing, those items have a pre-established (fixed) global pricing that supersedes all pricing profile settings.
