💡 If the purchase prices at your default supplier are known, you have most likely included them in a price list linked to that supplier. You can override these prices per supplier with a price adjustment. A typical example of this is a volume discount or a temporary promotion.
💡 Want to create a supplier price list? Follow this 👉 guide.
⇢ Go to Purchasing - Prices and select Price adjustments.
Click the green plus icon to create a new price adjustment.
Open a price adjustment to edit it.
General data
Name: in the name of a price adjustment, mention the supplier and the period for which this price adjustment is valid.
Type: you can assign two types of price adjustments. The type is for informational purposes only.
Contract: price agreements that are contractually agreed upon and always valid.
Promotion: price agreements that are temporary and limited in time.
Start date: the date on which this price adjustment becomes active. The order date in a purchase order is used to determine which price adjustment applies to that order.
💡 This date can be in the future, which means you can already set up new, future price adjustments.
End date: the date on which this price adjustment is no longer active.
Apply to
💡 You can apply a price adjustment to one supplier or to all suppliers.
Apply to all suppliers: check this box to apply the price adjustment to all suppliers.
Suppliers: select one or more suppliers for which you want to create the price adjustment.
Purchase price adjustments
💡 In this block you enter all price adjustments. As soon as a line is filled in, a new empty line is automatically added.
Discount type:
Absolute discount: a discount in euros on the supplier’s standard price.
Percentage discount: a discount in percent on the supplier’s standard price.
Replacement price: a new price replacing the supplier’s standard price. This can be higher or lower than the standard price.
Derived replacement price with absolute discount: a new replacement price based on the supplier’s standard price with a discount in euros.
Derived replacement price with percentage discount: a new replacement price based on the supplier’s standard price with a discount in percent.
Derived replacement price with absolute surcharge: a new replacement price based on the supplier’s standard price with a surcharge in euros.
Derived replacement price with percentage surcharge: a new replacement price based on the supplier’s standard price with a surcharge in percent.
Free product: the number of free products granted, typically used in combination with a minimum order quantity.
💡 An absolute and percentage discount are displayed in the order and on the invoice.
💡 Other price adjustments are applied in the order and invoice, but not displayed.
Discount: the discount that must be applied. The content of this field depends on the selected discount type.
Compared to supplier: an optional field to apply the Discount type and Discount to the price of another supplier than the one selected under Apply to. If left empty, the Discount type and Discount will be applied to the price of the selected supplier.
Apply to: use the toggle to choose between three options:
Apply to product: select the product to which the price adjustment applies.
Apply to product categories: select one or more product categories to which the price adjustment applies. Douano will automatically apply the adjustment to all products within the selected categories.
Apply to all products: select this option if the price adjustment applies to all products in the price list of the selected supplier.
Minimum order quantity: the minimum quantity that must be ordered of this product before the discount rule is applied.
💡 Discount lines are numbered on the left side of the line. Douano processes the lines in order, starting with line 1, until it finds a suitable discount to apply.
💡 You can sort the lines by clicking on a number and dragging the line to a new position.
💡 You can also sort the different price adjustments. Here too, Douano will go through the list from top to bottom until it finds a suitable price adjustment to apply.