Price Levels

This help topic is applicable to the following TireMaster applications:

TireMaster Point of Sale

TireMaster Plus

TireMaster Corporate

With price levels, you can offer customers special pricing for one item, a group of items, or all of the items you sell. You can assign price levels to individual customers or set up global price levels that are available to all customers at point of sale.

Note: Although price levels are typically used to give customers discounts, they can also be used to increase the prices some customers pay.

A price level includes a price level code and one or more price level discounts that are associated with the code. The purpose of price level discounts is to define which items to sell at special prices and how to calculate the special prices.

The first step in setting up a price level is to create the price level code.

To create a price level code

1. Select Inventory > Price Levels. The Price Levels screen opens.
2. Click Add. The Price Level Edit screen opens.
3. Type a code for the price level in the Price Level field.
Note: The price level code can be up to four characters long.
4. If you want the price level to be available to all customers at point of sale, select the Global check box. Otherwise, leave it clear.
5. Type a description for the price level.
6. To save the new price level, click OK.

Now you can create one or more price level discounts for the code. For more information, see Add Price Level Discounts.

Once you’ve created a price level code, you need to set up one or more price level discounts for the code. Price level discounts define which items to sell at a special price and how to set the pricing for those items. Price level discounts are typically used for giving customers discounts, however, they can be also used to charge some customers higher prices.

In TireMaster Corporate systems, price level discounts can be added only at the corporate site.

There are three ways to set up a price level discount:

You can add a markup or a margin to an item's regular price or cost.

Note: When calculations are based on last cost or next cost, the price one customer pays can vary from another customer’s price, depending on how much and how often the item’s receiving cost fluctuates. Therefore, ASA recommends that you talk to your accountant before setting up price level discounts using last cost or next cost.

You can deduct a specific dollar amount from the item’s regular price or cost.

You can set a fixed price for parts, labor, or both.

To create a price level discount

1. If the Price Levels screen isn't already open, select Inventory > Price Levels.
2. Select the price level for which you'll create a price level discount, and click Discounts. The Price Level Discounts screen opens.
3. Click Add. The Price Level Discount Edit screen opens.
4. Type a description for the price level discount.
5. Identify which items are eligible for the price level discount.
a. Select one of the options under Type, to search by product code, inventory category, inventory group, or manufacturer code.
b. To define whether the price level discount is for a range of items or a single product code, category, group, or manufacturer, select Range Search or Single Search.
c. Click 1 Lookup and search for a specific item or select a category, group, or manufacturer code. If the price level discount is for a range of items instead, click 1 Lookup to define the product code, category, group, or manufacturer for the beginning of the range.
Note: You can also type full or partial product codes, categories, groups, or manufacturer codes in the Lower Range and Upper Range fields.
d. If the price level discount is for a range of items, click 2 Lookup and select the product code, category, group, or manufacturer for the end of the range. Otherwise, disregard this step.
6. For a price level discount that adds a markup or a margin to your cost, do the following. Otherwise, disregard this step.
a. Under Base, select Base (for base price), Last Cost, Next Cost, or Standard Cost. Standard cost is available only in TireMaster Plus and TireMaster Corporate.
b. Select Multiply or Divide for the parts operator and then type the parts factor. For information about operators, see Markups and Margins.
Example: To charge wholesale customers 5% above your cost, you’d select Last Cost as the base for the price level discount. Then, to define the parts operator, you’d select Multiply and type the factor 1.05. With these settings, TireMaster would multiply an item’s last cost by 1.05 to determine the price level discount.
Note: Disregard the labor operator if the price level discount is based on base price, last cost, next cost, or standard cost.
7. For a price level discount that subtracts a set dollar amount from an item's regular price, type the discount amount in the Parts Dollar field, Labor Dollar field, or both. Otherwise, disregard this step.
Example: To deduct $10 from a tire’s everyday low price (the sum of the parts and labor prices), you’d select EDL and type 10 in the Parts Dollar field. With these settings, TireMaster would subtract $10 from the tire’s selling price.
Note: If you want to increase an item’s price instead, type a negative dollar amount.
8. For a price level discount that’s a fixed dollar amount, select Fixed (right side of the screen). Then type the price that the customer will be charged in the Parts field, Labor field, or both.
Example: Example: To charge a customer $20 an hour for labor regardless of the kind of work being done, you’d select Fixed and type 20 in the Labor field.
9. To use the price level price, even if the EDL price or sale price is lower, select Always Use.
10. To save the price level discount, click OK.

By assigning a price level to a customer, you can ensure that the customer is automatically charged the price specified by the price level instead of the item’s regular price. There are two ways you can assign price levels to customers:

For a single customer, look up the customer. When the Customer Maintenance screen opens, click Edit. Then click the Price Level field, press , and select a price level from the list. For more information, see Customer Searches and Update Multiple Customer Records .

For multiple customers, select Customers > List Editing and look up a range of customers. When the Customer List Editing screen opens, scroll to the PLEVEL column and choose a price level from the list for each customer. For more information, see Update Multiple Customer Records .

Note: If you plan to assign price levels to national account customers, make sure prices levels have been enabled for this customer type. For more information, see Price Levels for National Account Customers.
Tip: You can rearrange the columns on this screen. For more information, see Rearrange Table Columns.

With global price levels, you can give customers special pricing at point of sale by selecting price levels for the items you’ve put on work orders.

To select a price level at point of sale

1. Start a work order and add one or more items to it. For more information, see Create a Regular Work Order.
2. Select the item for which you want to use the price level, and click Price Level. The Global Price Levels screen opens.
Note: If no price levels are listed, none of your price levels include the selected item.
3. Select the level with the price you want to charge the customer and click OK.