To generate purchase quantity discounts
iMIS allows you to generate discounts according to the number of products a customer purchases (excluding freight and handling charges and any applicable taxes). The more products a customer purchases, the greater the discount.
Note: The Procedure reference that follows contains details to help you perform this task.
- From Orders, select Manage inventory> Manage products to open the Manage products window.
- From the list of Current Products, select the product for which you want to define special pricing.
- Click Pricing to open the Special Pricing window.
- Click New.
- (Required) Enter a customer type in the Type field (select the Find icon to look up a customer type).
- Enter a Description of the special pricing rule.
- Enable the Numeric Table option to display the Base from Formula option and the Source Field, Units/Code, Base Amount, and Amt/Addl Unit fields.
- Enter Order_Lines.QUANTITY_ORDERED in the Source Field field.
- Define a price break based on order quantity:
- In the Units/Code field, enter the minimum number of units to be charged the value defined in the Amt/Addl Unit field.
- Enter the correct value in the Base Amount field; the amount entered must equal the number of units in the Units/Code field multiplied by the unit price in the Amt/Addl Unit field.
- In the Amt/Addl Unit field, enter the unit cost. The unit cost entered determines the unit cost for the quantity range.
- Press Tab, and repeat this process until you have set up all price breaks for the customer type. Each line will represent a different price break based on order quantity.
- Click Save.
- Repeat this process for each customer type for which you want to generate purchase quantity discounts.
Procedure reference
In the following example of purchase quantity discounts, units 1 - 4 cost $32.00 per unit, units 5 - 9 cost $30.00 per unit, units 10 - 19 cost $25.00 per unit, and units 20 and above cost $22.00 per unit.

Example of a purchase quantity discount defined on the Special Pricing window

Example of the purchase quantity discount defined in the example above as generated for an M type customer