# Price List Settings

Price list settings contain three configuration tabs that control how pricing is calculated and organized in your system. Two of the are described here.

## Price Rules Tab

Price rules determine how prices are calculated for products in your price lists. Several built-in methods are available:

### Fixed Price Method

- No calculations performed
- Used when prices are set manually in admin tool, imported from external sources, or via Excel
- Overrides inheritance and doesn't work with rounding
- Default price is zero if not explicitly set on each product


### Standard Price Rules

Two standard price rule options:

- **Percentage rebate/discount**: Applies percentage-based discounts (subject to rounding rules)
- **Fixed amount discount**: Applies fixed amount discounts (no rounding applied)


Both methods:

- Work with price list inheritance
- Support negative values (adds to the price instead of discounting)
- Example: Use -5% to add 5% markup for international sales


### Alternative Price Methods

- **Use recommended price**: Takes percentage discounts, references recommended price field
- **Use catalog price**: Takes percentage discounts, references catalog price field


### Cost-Based Methods

Four cost-based calculation methods:

- **Cost plus** (purchase cost)
- **Cost plus** (unit cost)
- **Margin** (purchase cost)
- **Margin** (unit cost)


**Fallback rules**: If primary cost field is zero, system falls back to:

1. Alternative cost field
2. Sale price is set to 0.00


### Working with Price Rules

To manage price rules in the admin interface:

1. **Adding methods**: Click the **Add** button (top right), select desired methods using checkboxes, then click **Add** and **Save**
2. **Removing methods**: Click the **X** to the right of any method in the list, then click **Save**


**Important notes**:

- Only activated price rules appear in dropdown lists on price lists and product pricing tabs
- Available methods depend on your license (e.g., PIM-only licenses are limited to Fixed Price method)


## Price List Types Tab

Price list types provide classification for organizing different price lists. These built-in types serve multiple purposes:

### Classification Benefits

- Organize price lists by usage (standard, campaigns, agreement, etc.)
- Improve price list management and organization


### Business Rule Integration

Price list types enable specific functionality:

**Rounding Rules**

- Configure different rounding rules per price list type
- Example: Standard rounding for regular price lists, different rounding for campaigns


**Company Discounts**

- Price list types integrate with company discount functionality
- Enables type-specific discount behaviors


### Working with Price List Types

Managing price list types follows the same process:

1. **Adding types**: Click **Add**, search through the list, select using checkboxes, click **Add**, then **Save**
2. **Removing types**: Click the **X** to the right of any type in the list, then **Save**


# More info

See [related articles](/solution-portal/detailed-design/pricing-structure) for detailed information about cost-based pricing methods and [company discounts](/user-portal/customers-companies/company-discount).