Set up supplier pricing tiers and price breaks

A supplier pricing tier is a named price list for what you pay suppliers — for example Wholesale for everyday orders and Wholesale Bulk for the lower price you get on large orders. Each tier carries one currency, and each product can have a price on each tier for each supplier. Purchase orders fill unit costs from a tier, and you can switch a whole order to another tier when it qualifies for a better price.

This page covers creating tiers, giving them to a supplier, and using them for quantity price breaks. Entering a product's price on each tier happens on the product — see Manage a product's suppliers.

Before you begin

• You need access to Settings → Purchasing to create tiers, and permission to edit suppliers to assign them.
• Decide which currency each tier is in. A tier's currency is the supplier's currency on any purchase order priced from it.

Create a tier

1. Go to Settings → Purchasing → Supplier Pricing Tiers. The list shows each tier's Type, Base Tier, Formula, Currency, and which one is the Default.

   

2. Click Create Supplier Pricing Tier.

3. Enter a Name.

4. Choose the Pricing Type:

   • Absolute — you enter every product's price on this tier yourself. Pick the tier's Currency.
   • Relative — prices are worked out from another tier. Pick the Base Pricing Tier; the currency follows the base tier. Then set the Adjustment Percentage (%) (for example, -8 for 8% off), an optional Rounding, and an optional Fixed Amount Adjustment (for example, -0.01 to end prices in .99). The Formula and Example under the fields show the result before you save.

5. Click Create.

A relative tier fills in a price for every product that has a price on its base tier, in the background. When a base price changes later, the relative tier's price follows.

To make a tier the account default — the tier a supplier uses when it has no default of its own — open the tier, tick Set as default pricing tier, and save. Only an absolute tier can be the default.

Give a supplier its tiers

1. Go to Contacts → Suppliers, open the supplier, and open the Settings tab.
2. Click Edit.
3. Under Purchasing Defaults, add the supplier's tiers in Pricing Tiers.
4. If you added more than one, choose the supplier's Default Pricing Tier — the tier its products are priced from by default. Leave it empty to fall back to your account's default tier.
5. Click Save.

The default tier also sets the supplier's currency. To change many suppliers at once, see Export suppliers.

To compare a supplier's prices across tiers, open the supplier's Products tab, click Price List, and switch Cost tier.

Use tiers for quantity price breaks

SKU.io doesn't switch tiers on its own when a line crosses a quantity. Model each break as its own tier, and move a purchase order onto the right tier when it qualifies:

1. Create one tier per break — for example Wholesale for standard orders and Wholesale Bulk for 500 units and up. A relative tier works well when the break is a fixed percentage off.
2. Give both tiers to the supplier, with the standard tier as its Default Pricing Tier.
3. Enter each product's price on each tier on the product's Suppliers tab (absolute tiers only — relative tiers fill themselves in).
4. When a purchase order reaches the break, open it, select the lines, pick the bulk tier in Pricing Tier, and click Reprice. See Apply pricing, tax, or a discount to many lines at once.

You can reprice while the purchase order is a draft or open, before receiving locks in its costs.

Keep the supplier's original price list file with the supplier, so anyone can check where a tier's prices came from — see Keep a supplier's price lists and documents.

Next steps

• Manage a product's suppliers — enter a product's price on each tier.
• Edit a purchase order and its line items — how a new line's unit cost is chosen from the tiers.
• Bulk edit products — change a tier's prices across many products at once.