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Where a price and its tax came from · presentation 1 of 5

A scheme is a label, the price is on the item

You can say what a pricing scheme actually is, where the number a document uses is really stored…

The record that holds no price

Step 1 — See what a pricing scheme actually is

You will know what you created when you created a scheme.

Screen capture pending the demo tenant

Doc Item Maintenance, the Pricing Schemes listing, showing three schemes with codes and names and no prices

Step 2 — Ignore the price boxes on the scheme itself

You will stop trying to use six columns that do nothing.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. See what a pricing scheme actually…"]
  s2["2. Ignore the price boxes on the…"]
  s3["3. Understand the parent tree before somebody…"]
  s4["4. Use the mechanism that does exist"]
  s5["5. Know which of the three pricing…"]
  s6["6. Take away the one sentence that…"]
  s1 --> s2
  s2 --> s3
  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
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  class s2 here;

Step 3 — Understand the parent tree before somebody proposes it

You will know why a scheme hierarchy will not give you what people expect from one.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. See what a pricing scheme actually…"]
  s2["2. Ignore the price boxes on the…"]
  s3["3. Understand the parent tree before somebody…"]
  s4["4. Use the mechanism that does exist"]
  s5["5. Know which of the three pricing…"]
  s6["6. Take away the one sentence that…"]
  s1 --> s2
  s2 --> s3
  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
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  class s3 here;

Building the second list

Step 4 — Use the mechanism that does exist

You will know how a second price list actually gets built.

Screen capture pending the demo tenant

Doc Item Maintenance, Pricing Schemes, the edit form's Copy tab with a source scheme and an amendment

Three tools, one that prices

Step 5 — Know which of the three pricing tools reaches a line

You will stop mixing up three things that all look like pricing.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. See what a pricing scheme actually…"]
  s2["2. Ignore the price boxes on the…"]
  s3["3. Understand the parent tree before somebody…"]
  s4["4. Use the mechanism that does exist"]
  s5["5. Know which of the three pricing…"]
  s6["6. Take away the one sentence that…"]
  s1 --> s2
  s2 --> s3
  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
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  class s5 here;

Step 6 — Take away the one sentence that matters

You will have the sentence to give anyone who asks.

Where this step sits
    flowchart TD
  s1["1. See what a pricing scheme actually…"]
  s2["2. Ignore the price boxes on the…"]
  s3["3. Understand the parent tree before somebody…"]
  s4["4. Use the mechanism that does exist"]
  s5["5. Know which of the three pricing…"]
  s6["6. Take away the one sentence that…"]
  s1 --> s2
  s2 --> s3
  s3 --> s4
  s4 --> s5
  s5 --> s6
  classDef here fill:#1e40af,stroke:#1e40af,color:#ffffff,font-weight:bold;
  class s6 here;

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