Purchase price sets

Prices can be set externally from the case using price sets. Price sets allow the price of the material to be managed externally by administrators, and updates to pricing can be easily made by updating the associated sets.

You can override applied price sets within a particular case. Where multiple scenarios are selected, the scenario highest up the hierarchy takes precedence.

Click Manage in the Price Sets group of the Home ribbon tab to manage pricing scenarios in the current case.

When a value in the Price column appears dimmed, it means that the value comes from a price set.

Note: When a price set is in use, it is still possible to enter a manual price by entering a value in the relevant pricing row. The manually entered value will always take precedence over the price set value. If applying a price set to an existing case with prices, the old prices must be manually deleted to allow the price set prices to become active in the case.

When a price set formula references another price, as opposed to a parameter, the variable representing the price in the formula is treated as dimensionless. No unit of measure conversion is performed. This means that the numbers will be added without additional conversion, even if the referenced price is in a different unit than the price being calculated. For instance:

Moreover, if a price is converted to volume units using a reference density, the price is expressed in K$/m3. This happens for each price variable in the formula, as well as for the final calculation using the reference density of the price being computed.