Setting up Shared Pricing

If you have pricing that is common to many products, you can "share" the pricing across products. This way, if you ever need to update the pricing, you only have to update it in one place.

1. Datahost will add a category in your Site Manager called "Shared Pricing."
 
2. Add an item to the category and give it a descriptive name, such as "Available Finishes" (using the tub example), then fill in the options grid. For example:
 
 
Be sure to check the "Include as Option" checkbox.
 
3. When you go to add other products you will see a checkbox above the pricing table that says "Available Finishes." If you check the box, then these options will show up on the website for the new product.

 

 

If a product has an extra finish available, in the new product you can use the same group label (in this example "Fixture") to set custom finishes that apply only to this product, but are grouped with the standard set. For example:

 

 

 

In this scenario the user would see a menu with the standard finishes (faux silver, faux gold, real silver, real gold) plus the product specific finishes (faux copper, real copper). If you have separate configurations that are frequently grouped together, you can create separate shared pricing options. For example, using the "finishes" scenario, you could create "Silver Finishes," "Gold Finishes," and "Copper Finishes" by using identical group labels in each option set. When adding a product you just check off which finishes this product comes in.