Setting up prices and pricing tiers

How your prices are laid out

Open Pricing from the Catalogue section of the admin menu. Only company admins can change company-wide prices. Items are grouped by category (Copper, Brass, Aluminium and so on), and each item has a unit, usually kg.

• Sales Price — what you get for the item when you sell it on. It’s used to work out the margin on each purchase.
• One column per pricing tier — what you pay sellers on that tier. Tiers are your price groups, such as Walk-in and Trades.
• The first tier is your base tier. It’s marked “(base)” in the tier list, and it’s the starting point for Bulk edit.

Click any price to change it, then press Enter or the tick to save it. Use the search box to jump to an item or a category.

Adding items and tiers

1. Click Add Item. Pick an existing category or type a new one, enter the item name (for example COPPER BRIGHT WIRE) and the unit, then click Add.
2. Click Manage Tiers to open the tier list. Type a name such as Trades in the new tier box and click Add Tier.
3. Use the up and down arrows to put the tiers in order. The tier at the top becomes the base, and the order is the order of the columns.
4. Fill in a price for each item on each tier, plus the Sales Price.
5. To set a whole tier at once, click Bulk edit at the top of that tier’s column. Pick the base (Sales Price or another tier) and a percentage. For example, −20 sets every price at 80% of the base.

Giving one store its own prices

By default every store pays the company prices. If one yard needs different rates, for example because it’s further from the buyer, give that store its own copy of the list.

1. Go to Stores and click Pricing on the store you want to change.
2. Click Override prices for this store and confirm. AltScrap copies every company price into a price list just for that store.
3. Click a price to change it for that store only. When a store price is different from the company price, the company price shows underneath it.
4. To put one price back to the company price, click the small arrow next to “company: $…”. To drop the store list completely, click Remove store overrides.

Once a store has its own prices, changes you make on the company Pricing page don’t carry over to it. Check overridden stores whenever you move the company list. The Stores page marks those stores with a Custom pricing badge. The Sales Price is set once for the whole company and can’t be overridden per store.

Loading a buyer’s price list

When a buyer sends you their new rates, you can load the sheet instead of typing it in. It updates your Sales Price column, which is what you sell for. Your buying prices stay as they are.

1. On Pricing, click Import from buyer.
2. Choose the file: a CSV, PDF, or a photo or screenshot (JPEG, PNG or WebP) up to 15 MB. Click Extract.
3. AltScrap reads the rows and fills in the buyer, document number, effective-from date and whether the prices include GST. Check those details.
4. Go through the rows. Each one shows the buyer’s code, the name on their sheet and which item in your list it was matched to. Change the match if it’s wrong, fix any price, and untick rows you don’t want.
5. Click Apply import. Past imports are listed under Buyer price imports.

How the counter picks the price

1. The staff app loads the prices for the store it’s signed in to. That means the store’s own price where it has one, and the company price everywhere else.
2. When a customer or supplier is chosen, their default tier is picked automatically. Set a customer’s tier with the Pricing Tier dropdown on their page. A supplier’s tier is set when you approve them.
3. If the seller has no tier, staff pick one under Pricing Tier before the purchase can be finished. Changing the tier reprices every line already on the purchase.
4. Each item comes in at the price for that tier. If there’s no price for that tier, the price box is left empty and has to be filled in.
5. Staff can type over the price on any line, for example to match a deal on a big load.

Checking and undoing changes

Click Change log on the Pricing page to see every change to tier prices, store overrides and sales prices: who made it, when, and what the price was before. Each change is labelled, for example Manual edit, Bulk markup, Import promotion or Store price fork.

Click Revert on any entry to put those prices back to what they were before it. Revert overwrites any later edits to the same prices. The revert is recorded too, so you can undo it if needed.