Defining purchase prices and sales pricing for items

You can establish the prices your client will pay their suppliers for each item and the prices they want to charge at the same time as you import items. I have found, however, that many clients have more complex requirements around these two topics, so we typically do this as a follow-up exercise. We define the basics about the items first and then export those item lists from the account as CSV files. Then, we use those files as the starting points for the purchase price and sales pricing updates we make next.

Purchase prices can be defined per item in several different ways, and how each client wants to do this will vary depending on the item’s type, their business needs, and more. The native Purchase Price field is available on every inventory and other item type screens if the client is OK with having just one price per item within the account. Populating this field is optional, though; if we do not set it per item...