Price List Setup
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Before you can sell products and services using ADempiere, the products must be listed on a price list. For purchasing, a price list is no necessary but it does make the job of completing the Purchase Orders much easier if a price list exists.
A price list is a list of products and services and their associated pricing, discounts. You can prepare price lists for specific business partners or business partner groups. For example:
- Cash Sale Price List - a price list for a single customer "Cash Sale", used to price items for sale at a POS where the personal identity of the customer is not recorded.
- Customer Price List - a price list for direct sales to known customers.
- Distributor Price List - a price list with deep discounts and volume breaks for use by distributors of your products.
- Supplier Price Lists - price lists of commonly purchased products listing the purchase prices offered by the suppliers and only listing those product sold by the supplier.
Since the price lists are often published, version control of the documents is important, so each price list has a version and only the most recent version is used. The versions can be prepared ahead of time with an effective date and will become active on that date.
Before you setup your price lists, ensure you have imported or setup your products and business partners. See Product Setup and Business Partner Setup.
To setup price lists, navigate to Material Management{{#if: Material Management Rules | » Material Management Rules }}{{#if: | » }}{{#if: | » }}{{#if: | » }} and click on 
Price List Setup. The following workflow will appear in the workflow tab.
The workflow includes the following windows:
- {{#if: Price List Schema|Price List Schema|PriceListSchema }} Window - The Price List Schema defines the calculation rules used in the price lists.
- {{#if: Price List|Price List|PriceList }} Window - The Price List Window allows you to generate product price lists for your Business Partners. Price lists determine currency and tax treatment. Price list versions allow you to maintain parallel lists for different date ranges. The most current pricelist version is used based on the document date. All pricelists have three prices: List, Standard and Limit. The first step is to create a base price list. You can manually add products and enter the prices or create them automatically. The base price list is often the purchase price list with list price ('official' retail price), the standard price (your purchase price). The limit price can be used to check your final purchase costs after discounts, rebates, etc. Pricelists can be calculated and copied. To speed up the calculation, the parameters are stored and used when creating a new price list version.
- {{#if: Discount Schema|Discount Schema|DiscountSchema }} Window - Trade discount schema calculates the trade discount percentage
- {{#if: Business Partner|Business Partner|BusinessPartner }} Window - Revisit business partners to assign specific price lists to specific business partners. Most will likely be able to use the default price lists.
