Knowledge Base
Mastering Pricing, Promotions & Inventory
Pricing levels, promotions, and inventory controls.
- Custom Inventory Fields Our inventory file is designed to be updated regularly, reducing the need to update the product file as often, and therefore reducing the eCat update time.
- Grade Jump Riser Pricing Grade Jump Riser Pricing is part of our configurable product support. If you haven't set that up, please refer to the documentation using the links below,
- Catalog Pricing Catalog Pricing controls what prices you and your customers see when browsing products in eCat Online. You can display cost, retail, a custom markup, or hide prices entirely - a…
- Comparison Price Level eCat supports showing customers how much they've saved on an order based on a comparison price level. The savings amount display at the bottom of the order PDF and if desired, a…
- Select eOL Catalog Price Instead of showing wholesale pricing while working with their customers, designers and dealers can either hide prices or show retail pricing in the eCat Online catalog.
- Selecting eCat Online catalog pricing If you're a designer, you can now show suggested retail pricing instead of wholesale pricing so you can browse the catalog with your clients. Then, when you're ready to place an…
- Auditing Product Placements (Furniture) eCat's display placement audit feature is specifically designed for capturing, managing, and analyzing dealer showroom display inventories. Sales teams can use these tools to im…
- Auditing Product Placements (Lighting) Use eCat to record, edit, evaluate, and share dealer showroom display inventories, and submit display inventories to the eCat server. Compare display audits from different dates…
- Special Promotion Pricing eCat supports special promotion pricing that allows users to apply discounts to selected items with a single tap. This is ideal for BOGO offers, trade show promotions, or limite…
- Price level behavior change in eCat v2016.3 (May 24, 2016)
- Import Contract Prices Customer contract prices can be provided that override the bill-to customer's standard price for specific items. This is typically used in cases where customers commit to purcha…
- Import Matrix Options In addition to fixed price and percentage markups/markdowns on options and option groups, eCat provides a way for users to configure products with options like graded fabrics, c…
- Inventory File eCat's inventory file is used to publish product inventory balance information to eCat. This can include information like quantity available, on-order quantities, next arrival d…
- Price Levels As many different price levels can be defined in eCat as needed to meet your business needs. Price levels can be imported in the product file or calculated as a multiple of impo…
- Order Surcharges You can use eCat Online Surcharges to easily populate orders with standard fees like handling charges, sales tax, and drop ship charges. On the orders surcharges page, you can d…