Per-Site Pricing

Pricing Schemes* as discussed above are an efficient way to reprice items on a site in relation to the sale price you have set on an item. The advantage of this technique is that you only have to maintain a single sales price and the pricing on your sites will always be tied to this price and simply modified upwards or downwards according to the Pricing Scheme.

The obvious disadvantage of this technique is that all the prices for all products on the site will need to be related to the sales price by the same percentage - e.g. a 20% discount, or a 30% markup.

If you need fine grain control over each product's price on each of your sites, you'll need to use product-level per-site pricing overrides. This allows you to specify an exact price to use as the sales price for an item on any or all of your sites. You can also choose to override an item's tax code on any particular site.

If you override a product's price for a particular site, that price will replace the sales price for that site only. Normally this is fairly easy to understand. For example:

• a product has a sell price set of £100

• you set up a site override to set the price on Website A to £50

• the price displayed on Website A for the product will this be £50

However, the situation can be complicated when a site-overrides price has to combine with bulk discounts, pricing schemes and other calculated discounts. The best way to understand it is that when you override a product price on a per-site basis, you are effectively substituting the sale price for that site only - all further discounts will be then calculated from this new, overriden price.

This means that Pricing Schemes and Bulk Discounts based on percentage markups or discounts work well, but fixed price bulk discounts or web discounts won't make much sense. If you want your price override to 'inherit' the bulk pricing breakpoints and discounts you've set at product-level, select enable bulk pricing on the site override, otherwise bulk pricing will not be applied to the site-overriden price.