--- title: "Maintain the Pricing Hierarchy Table" canonical: "https://kb.myframeworks.com.au/space/CO/30529666/Maintain%20the%20Pricing%20Hierarchy%20Table" format: markdown --- Overview The Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance table allows you to adjust the pricing needs of your business. From here you can: Turn On and Off each of the pricing methods listed to suit your needs.  Adjust the pricing methods into a priority sequence to match the pricing rules of your business. Enable the option to continue searching for a better price once a price has been found for a nominated pricing method. Your pricing hierarchy is applied to a Sales transaction once a product has been selected. You will always be shown the customers price based on your defined pricing hierarchy. If a new customer is selected for a sale or a different promotion or contract is applied then the product pricing will adjust accordingly. Note, if a manual price override is applied to a transaction line this will not follow the pricing hierarchy. The Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance screen lists all the pricing methods already in place. Accessing the Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance Screen To access the Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance to add or maintain your pricing hierarchy, perform the following: Click   then navigate to  System Administration > System Tables > Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance  from the navigation tree. Example of our out of the box pricing hierarchy.  The Pricing Method Programs There are eleven pricing methods listed in the pricing hierarchy table: Pricing Method Description Product Discounts by Customer Group Looks for a  product discount for the discount group linked to a customer group that is set up as the default discount group for a customer group. Refer to  Customer Groups for more information on defining customer groups and the  Product Discounts  section in  Product Maintenance . Program:  iprice1 Product Discounts by Customer Looks for a  product discount for the discount group  assigned to a  Customer.   Refer to the  More Data section in  Customer Maintenance and the  Product Discounts  section in  Product Maintenance . Program:  iprice2 Product Discounts by Volume Looks for a  product volume discount price. Refer to the  Volume Discounts  section in  Product Maintenance . Program:  iprice3 Disc% or GP Product Group by Customer Group Looks for a discounted price for the discount module that refers to the discount group linked to the Customer Group . Note : The Disc% or GP Product Group by Customer Group  looks for the most specific price. ie, If it finds a product discount within the module then that will be used. If it finds a Sub Group discount first then that will be used instead and so on up to Product Group Discount within the module if it exists. Refer to  Customer Groups for more information on defining customer groups and the  Product Discounts  section in  Product Maintenance . Program:  iprice4 Disc% or GP by Product Group by Customer Looks for a discounted price for the discount module that refers to the discount group  assigned to a Customer .  Note:  The Disc% or GP by Product Group by Customer looks for the most specific price. ie, If it finds a product discount within the module then that will be used. If it finds a Sub Group discount first then that will be used instead and so on up to Product Group Discount within the module if it exists. Refer to the  More Data section in  Customer Maintenance and the  Product Discounts  section in  Product Maintenance . Program:  iprice5 Standard Default Contracts Looks for a price that is the result of a  Default Customer Contract . Program:  iprice6 Customer Specific Contracts Looks for a price that is the result of a specified Customer or National Contract  selected at the start of a sale. Program:  iprice7 Promotional Pricing Looks for a price that is the result of a  Promotion . Program:  iprice8 Product Price Over-ride Duplication If a price is  Overridden  for a specific product while keying a Sales Order, this price will be duplicated for any other occurrence of that product on the same Order. Program:  iprice9 Trade Discount on top of volume discount Applies Trade Discount on top of a  Volume discount .  The  Trade Discount on top of volume discount must come after the  Product Discounts by Volume for GTIN UOM Volume Discount to work, however, the  Trade Discount on top of volume discount  does NOT have to be active. Note : This only works for Discount Group Discounts linked via a Customer Group. the Discount Group linked to the customer is not taken into account in the  Trade Discount on top of volume discount Program:  iprice10 Auto-Select Contracts Looks for a price that is the result of an Auto-Select National or Customer contract . Program:  iprice11 Add a Pricing Method To add a new pricing method, from the Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance screen perform the following: Click   and a new row in the grid. On the row add the required information: Seq :  Type the sequence number for this pricing method. This is a two-digit numeric field used to determine the priority sequence for each of the pricing methods listed Description :  Type a description for this pricing method. Active : Tick to make the pricing method active. Continue : Tick  if you want to continue searching for a better price after searching by the selected pricing method. Program :  Type the program number that refers to this pricing method. Click   to commit the changes. Change a Pricing Method To change a new pricing method, from the Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance screen perform the following: With in the pricing method grid. Click on the pricing method you want to edit Make the required changes and click on  to commit the changes. Removing a Pricing Method To remove a pricing method, from the Pricing Hierarchy Maintenance screen perform the following: With in the pricing method grid. Click on the pricing method you want to remove Click on  to delete the selected line From the confirmation popup window click on the  Yes - Perform Delete  button. Additional Information Refer to the  Pricing Hierarchy User Manual for more information.