Pricing

The end customer sees the unit prices of products that they can buy. There are two main categories of prices an end customer may see.

1. Ordinary Price (Unit List Price): The ordinary price is the normal price of a product. This is usually what a vendor may print in his sales material, price lists, or what some businesses call 'price catalog'. In Litium, list prices are kept in Price Lists (see below). 
    
2. Special Price (Unit Campaign Price): A special price is usually a reduced price. that a vendor wants to highlight to the end customer, and show that it is more beneficial to buy this product at this time. Here, the seller will want to show both normal price, as well as the special price, to highlight the difference. Normally, the special price is shown in a highlighted color.

The price of an article presented to the user will depend on the following factors:

1. The Article itself.
2. The Price List in which the Article is in.
    Any given Article can be in several price lists. The correct price list for picking the list price is determined by:
   1. Currency of the order should be the same as the currency to which the price list is defined.
   2. Current Date should be within valid time interval for the price list in concern.
   3. User group of the customer should be within the user groups to which the price list is defined.
   4. Assortment in which article is present should be within the assortments to which the price list is defined.
      If there is more than one price list that fulfills the above four tests, the minimum price among them will be selected.
3. Whether any special campaign prices (Unit Campaign Price) can be determined for the article

Price Lists: The list of Unit List Prices

In a webshop, each article displayed will have a price, which is shown to the user. The vendor maintains a list of prices for the articles that are being sold, which is called a price list. Therefore, a price list contains a "List Price" for each article being sold. The price list also contains the VAT percentage applicable for each article.
A price list is constrained by (or in other words, is defined for)

1. A particular currency.
2. A valid time period.
3. A particular user group(s) (or all users).
4. For a particular product catalog(s) (or all product catalogs).

A given article can be in several pricelists. If you plan to sell in more than one currency, you will need a separate price list for each currency, and all your articles will have to be priced in both currencies.

How to obtain list price for a product

Please see the guide on how to obtain the list price for a product. 

Showing Prices to end customers

On your public site, you can use ArticlePrice webcontrol to display the prices to end users. It shows the list price of the product.

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