Legacy Pricing vs Advanced Product Pricing Engine (What's the Difference?)

Product Selector

Price Calculations

Base Rule

Freight Price Handling

Kitted Product Handling

Price calculations from Cost only.

Price calculations from Cost, MSRP, and MAP Pricing.

Price rules by category, manufacturer, and individual product rules are all organized and prioritized separately. Prioritization Rules are fixed in the order of Product, Category, and Manufacturer e.g. all category rules override manufacturer rules.

All price rules are organized and prioritized in one place.

Rental Pricing

• Rental terms are set and managed for each individual pricing rule.

Rental Pricing

• Rental terms have their own settings and management.
• Rental terms are selected from a drop-down menu when creating and editing pricing rules.

Product Selector

Can only combine attributes from the same feature set i.e. you can select multiple manufacturers to create a multi-manufacturer rule, but you cannot combine Manufacturer and Category attributes to select products.

Attributes for creating rules is limited to:

• Manufacturer
• Category
• SKU
• Name

Product Selector

Combine multiple attributes or attribute sets to target a unique group of products with and/or values.

Attributes for creating rules is limited to:

• Manufacturer
• Consumer Brand
• Category
• SKU
• Name
• Direct Shipping
• MSRP
• MAP

Price Calculations

• Pricing strategies are limited to:
  • Cost-based
  • Fixed-price

Mathematical expressions for calculating price is limited to: 

• Multiply
• Markup
• Gross Margin

Price Calculations

• Pricing strategies are limited to:
  • Cost
  • Cost, use MSRP if available
  • Cost, do not exceed MSRP if available
  • MSRP

Mathematical expressions for calculating price is limited to:

• Multiply
• Markup
• Gross Margin
• Subtract
• Add
• Divide

Price Calculations

• Price calculations are limited to one mathematical expression and rounding rule.
• There are no MAP price settings.
• The rounding tool is limited to rounding up or down to the nearest defined value.

Price Calculations

• You can combine multiple mathematical expressions to create the desired price calculation.
• There is a setting to prevent products from being priced lower than MAP (when MAP is provided).
• The rounding tool allows you to round up and down to the nearest defined value and also allows you to set a maximum adjustment.

There is no preview of how the product selector or price calculations will affect products in the catalog.

Live Preview of price calculation and product selector while creating pricing rules.

There is no displayed count of the number of products targeted or priced by a specific rule.

A displayed count of the number of products targeted and priced by a rule on the Everyday Pricing page.

There is no Activity History reporting for pricing rules.

Activity History

• Pricing changes are documented with a timestamp, the email of the user who made the changes, and the exact before and after change log.
• Button to restore to original version before a specific group of changes.

Only the ability to edit and delete rules.

Ability to edit, delete, disable, and clone rules.