Period and Volume Discounts
Use this function if you want special prices to depend on the items and associated price lists, and not directly on the business partners.
If a customer purchases an item, and neither a special price nor a discount group has been defined for the customer or this item, the special prices for the price list apply. This is the price list specified in the business partner master record.
Example
The Watering Can
in Garden Price
List 8 has a price of $30. However, the price of oil has risen and the manager
decides to raise the whole price list by a factor of 1.5 to reflect the higher
costs of transporting the inventory to her remote store. The updated price
for the Watering Can is now $45.
In reviewing the updated price list, the manager decides that the
new prices are quite high for some items. Since she wants to increase sales
over the summer, she offers a discount, just for the Watering Can, during
July and August, by entering 20 in the Discount
column,
signifying a reduction of 20%. The price after discount is $36.
Although the Price
field in the Period
and Volume Discounts
window does not show the new price after
discount, the item is displayed in blue, which indicates that a discounted
price is applied in certain conditions.