Handling Custom Prices in BigCommerce

May 09, 2021

Not every client pays the same price. Online merchants sometimes offer different prices to different sorts of consumers.

Here's an example. Say you've got an internet company selling stove fittings, pipes, and components for wood and gas stoves. You have two different types of customers.

To begin with, you could sell directly to homeowners, who could make a couple of purchases every couple of years. In addition you sell to stove repair businesses which may place 25 orders each week.

It might be reasonable to provide a discount to cooker repair businesses. For companies on BigCommerce's Enterprise program, a price list may do precisely that. It enables merchants to assign prices to client groups, such as wholesalers or merchants.

In BigCommerce Enterprise, merchants can record prices based on client groups.

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Price Lists

Price lists are variant-level overrides that enable merchants to show different product prices based on client groups.

By way of instance, imagine an internet seller with both wholesale and retail clients.

When a retail shopper visits the website, he sees the retail price for those products. However, when a wholesale shopper visits and logs in, she sees the wholesale price for the very same items.

In each case -- retail or wholesale -- product pricing could be kept at the individual SKU level.

If the business sells a widget in silver, black, or purple, it could set the price for each color individually -- as a percentage from their retail price or as a particular price point.

There are two methods to create and maintain price lists in BigCommerce Enterprise: manually creating them in the admin or using the Price Lists Import & Export app.

In every case, the method starts with creating a client group.

Customer Groups

From the BigCommerce admin, navigate to Customers > Client Groups. These classes could include wholesale shoppers or even clients related to an organization.

Client groups could include wholesale shoppers or, possibly, consumers related to a specific organization.

To begin, click on the"Create a Client Form" button.

BigCommerce permits you to input pricing straight. You could offer a discount over a group of products or even on individual products. However, for our purposes, we'll do this using a price list since it might provide for more pricing flexibility and be comparatively easier to maintain.

A price list could provide for greater pricing flexibility and be comparatively easier to maintain.

Managing Price Lists

Having a client group created, now you can handle a price list. In the BigCommerce admin, browse to Products > Price Lists.

Here you may make a new price list or keep an existing one.

Price lists appear at a spreadsheet-like table. You can add or remove columns in the table with the"Edit Columns" dropdown menu.

Maintain price lists at a spreadsheet-like table.

Then fill in the table. Think of "Catalog Price" as the retail price. A percentage in the"Discount" area will lower the retail price accordingly.

If you would like to specify a price (rather than devote a percentage reduction ), type that price to the"New Price" field.

Import or Export

Manually maintaining price lists at the BigCommerce admin will work for some businesses. However, others may prefer to maintain the list outside BigCommerce, or at least a replica of it.

By way of instance, an omnichannel wholesaler might have other software or tools which can create sophisticated price lists based on commodity pricing, changes in distribution, or comparable. If these services can export the list as a comma-separated value file, that file can be imported into BigCommerce through the above Price Lists Import & Export app. Once installed, it will then appear under"Apps" from the BigCommerce admin.

The CSV file must include at least the following fields: