Adding Pricing details to your Product Item
All pricing and product variable information is inserted on the Item Pricing tab, which becomes available when a Product Item is selected in the List View.

The Item Pricing tab is unique to Product Items.

The pricing information you add to a Product is what makes the shopping basket functionality active.


Primary Options and Secondary Options
Primary options refer to the price dependent options for each product.

E.g. Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge CD £9.99
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge LP £15.00
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Cassette £3.95

In the above example, each option affects the price of the product (The Rolling Stones album)

Secondary options refer to the series of price independent options, or attributes, for each product (such as size or colour).

E.g. Calvin Klein T-Shirt £19.99
Size: Small
Medium
Large
X Large

Colour: White
Black
Grey

In the above example, the available options do not effect the price of the product (The Calvin Klein T-Shirt)

Most products would not be multi-optional on a price dependent basis and will usually only occupy the first line of the Primary options field. It is, however, very likely that they may have a number of price independent options (i.e. The options that do not affect the price).


Primary Options
The primary options (price dependent details) for your product are inserted into the fields on the Primary Options sub-tab.

The Primary Options fields allow you to insert:
i) A product code
ii) A description or name
iii) The retail price
iv) The weight of the item
v) An (optional) alternative price.


Inserting a product code
The Product Code field allows you to insert your own product code relating to the product.

The product code inserted here will be included in the order log when the product is purchased from your store.

If you do not use product codes, you can leave this field blank. If left blank, EROL will invisibly create an irrelevant product code that will be viewable in the EROL Store Manager.


Inserting a 'Product Description'
A 'Product Description' will normally be the same as your Item Name and can be inserted using the 'Auto Insert' button to the left of the field.

You can also manually type in a product description if it is different from the Item Name.


Inserting a retail price
The 'Retail Price' is the main price of the product, excluding any taxes.

You only need to insert the numeric figure here. EROL will automatically insert the currency symbol.

Should you wish to include tax for a specific item only, do not insert the tax-inclusive price into the 'Retail Price' field; rather check the 'include tax in retail price' check box on the 'Tax' sub-tab below.


Displaying your prices with or without tax
By default EROL will not display the local tax rate on any of your products in the store (This can however be changed on a global or item-by-item basis). Instead the tax will be added at the order form once the customer has selected his or her own country.

You can however include your local tax rate in all the prices should you wish. This is useful if you are required to display your prices as tax inclusive, such as in the UK or Europe where VAT is always included in the display price of commercial goods.

1) Displaying prices with tax on a global basis
Tax can be included globally across the store on all prices (Retail or Alt or both) by checking the 'Display price as tax inclusive' checkbox on the Local Taxes tab in Tax setup.

The global setting can be overwritten on a product-by-product basis, using the 'Tax' sub-tab on the Item Pricing tab for any individual product item.

Remember, the Alt price is for display purposes only, and has no effect on order form calculations whatsoever.

2) Displaying prices with tax on a product-by-product basis
On the Item Pricing tab's 'Tax' sub-tab you can apply the local tax rate to be included in the price that gets displayed on the store page. Check 'Retail Price' to include the tax in the retail price and/or check 'Alt Price' to include the tax in the Alt price (if applicable).

Remember, the Alt price is for display purposes only, and has no effect on order form calculations whatsoever.


Inserting a product weight
The weight of your product is entered into the 'Weight' field. Your weight can be measured in any unit so long as you maintain the convention through all products in the store, as well as in your weight banding tables (if applicable) in your Courier Setup.


Inserting an Alt (alternative) Price
The alternative (Alt) price allows you to add a second price to an item. This second price can be used visually for such things as displaying a previous price, RRP, excl Tax, incl. Tax etc.

You cannot ever use the Alt Price as an actual calculable price. Although the Alt Price is 'live' in the sense that it is affected by tax calculations, currency conversion etc., the price the customer pays must always be the Retail Price.


Displaying the Alt Price
Displaying the Alt Price in your store requires you to select (or build) a Product Template that includes the Alt Price field. The template builder will allow you to insert the Alt Price field at any position in your item's layout.

If you insert an Alt Price in your primary options, but fail to select (or build) a template that includes the Alt Price field, the Alt Price will be ignored. Likewise, if you insert and Alt Price field but do not include an actual figure in the primary options, the field will be ignored when the Item is viewed in the store.


How the Primary Options are displayed in the store
The primary options form the fundamental pricing details for any product. As such they should always be displayed in the store alongside the product image and description - whether it is the main view or the expanded view.

We refer to these (along with the secondary options and quantity field) in the store as the Product Selectors.

The Product Selectors included in the store are determined by the Product Selectors you choose to include (or add yourself) in the Item Layout template for that product.


Adding multiple Primary (price dependent) options
You can add as many price dependent options into the Primary Options fields as you like. After you have inserted the product code, description or name, retail price, weight and (optional) alternative price, repeat the process on the line underneath.

The Primary Options (i.e. price dependent options) will be displayed in the store as part of a dropdown with the product names and their relevant prices. The customer will be required to select the primary product option of their choice.

If there is only one price dependent option in the Primary Options field, there will be no option - and therefore no dropdown - displayed.

To add multiple Primary Options:
1. Select the relevant Product Item in the List View
2. Flip to the Item Pricing tab and ensure the Primary Options sub-tab is active
3. Add your first price dependent option in the first row
4. A new row will become active
5. Add as many additional price dependent options as you require, inserting all relevant pricing details for each.

Secondary Options
Your Secondary Options are the variable choices for a product that do not affect the price of that product. For example, the Secondary Options for a T-shirt would be size (e.g. S, M, L, XL etc) and colour (e.g. White, black, red, grey).

Neither of the previous examples affects the price of the product.

Two sets of Secondary Options can be applied to each product.

To add Secondary Options,
1. Select the relevant Product Item in the List View
2. Flip to the Item Pricing tab
3. Flip to the Secondary Options sub-tab
4. Decide on your option range (e.g. Size) then insert one option at a time into the Secondary Options 1 fields.
5. A second option range (e.g. Colour) can be inserted into the Secondary Options 2 fields.

How the Secondary Options are displayed in the store
The Secondary Options (i.e. price independent options) will be displayed in the store as part of dropdown menus. The customer will then be required to select the secondary product option of their choice.

If you insert a set of Secondary Options, but fail to select (or build) a template that includes the Secondary Options dropdown menu(s), the Secondary Options data will be ignored.

Likewise, if you insert and Secondary Options dropdown menu(s) but do not insert any Secondary Options on the Item Pricing tab, the Secondary Options dropdown menu(s) will not be displayed when the Item is viewed in the store.

A customer will not be able to purchase a product if they have not selected a Secondary Option (if Secondary Options are available for that product).


Individual pricing settings for each product
Although certain pricing options (such as 'including tax in the display prices') are set on a global basis, you can override these settings on a product-by-product basis.

Additionally there are certain settings that may only apply to a single product, or select products, in your store (such as the product being tax exempt, belonging to a special tax group or requiring a percentage discount). These pricing irregularities are controlled and set on a product-by-product basis using the Item Pricing sub-tabs.