RE: Advanced pricing

[Angus Appleby - Unwins Seeds <aappleby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 22/OEA screen is practically useless anyway, it should allow you to 
simulate exactly what the customer will get charged by allowing you to enter 
the product & qty, then work out the whole price and apply the discounts on the 
same screen. It just allows you either to select price or discount, then not 
only do you have to remember the details, but you also need to rekey the whole 
thing in again because the screen helpfully wipes out the first lot of data 
input.

The main overhead (apart from speed in AOE) we find here is the continual 
updating of prices, particularly when there has been a price increase, or a new 
list has to be set up for a foreign currency. The global update is ok, but 
doesnt really suit us and not everything goes up uniformally.

The ability to group customers & products is (for us) the best way to use it, 
but some customers insist on net prices. This is particularly true for EDI, 
because we've found that the AI525 unit nett price is often different on the AI 
files than the ones created in OEP70, which means we send the EDI invoice out 
with a different value to the one posted to the ledger.

Overall, I would say it is complex to set up, but once you get your head round 
it, it works really well, and gives you good flexibility when you have a varies 
mix of customers & product groups.

Angus

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