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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.

  1. From Orders, select Manage inventory> Manage products to open the Manage products window.
  2. From the list of Current Products, select the product for which you want to define special pricing.
  3. Click Pricing to open the Special Pricing window.
  4. Click New.
  5. (Required) Enter a customer type in the Type field (select the Find icon to look up a customer type).
  6. Enter a Description of the special pricing rule.
  7. 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.
  8. Enter Order_Lines.QUANTITY_ORDERED in the Source Field field.
  9. Define a price break based on order quantity:
    1. In the Units/Code field, enter the minimum number of units to be charged the value defined in the Amt/Addl Unit field.
    2. 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.
    3. In the Amt/Addl Unit field, enter the unit cost. The unit cost entered determines the unit cost for the quantity range.
  10. 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.
  11. Click Save.
  12. 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

See Also

Defining Product Special Pricing

Special Pricing window

To define product special pricing

To generate discounts based on total quantity ordered


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