Common business activities involve lots of information transactions. People use fax, email, catalog, brochure, etc. to distribute latest product information to their customers. As Internet has becoming a trend for the industries, new businesses are now utilizing it as one of the major sales channel. Using the Price Group feature in Comdev Web Builder 2.0, you can provide your customers and dealers with the latest product prices faster, more efficient and anytime when they need it.
This tutorial will teach you how to manage different price groups, create customer accounts and assigning them to specific product price list.
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Creating Price Group
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1. To create a new price group, click on the Product icon on your left menu. Then click on Price Group tab on the top of the page. (Figure 1a & Figure 1)
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Figure 1 Comdev Web Builder welcome page
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Figure 1 The pricing group interface
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2. In the Group List on your right, you will notice 2 default price groups that have already created named Normal and Promotion. (Figure 2)
3. Enter a new Group Name and its Description. Click on the Add button. (Figure 3)
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Figure 2 The default pricing groups
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Figure 3 Adding some more groups
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4. . The page reloads and you will find it in the bottom of the Group List. (Figure 4)
5. A list of your products in your product catalog will appear in the bottom of the page. (Figure 5)
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Figure 4 Added!
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Figure 5 A set of your products
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Updating Product Prices
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1. . You will notice the product list is belong to Current Price Group : Dealer A. (Figure 6)
2. Go through the list by Code, Name and Category, which are sortable by click the  icon. (Figure 6)
3. In the Price column, you will find that all prices are indicated as N/A. (Figure 7)
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Figure 6 Sorting the group's price list
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Figure 7 Insert dealer price here
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4. Enter new price for each product that you wish for this price group. Example, if you want to supply the product the Dealer A with special price of $25.00 instead of $29.90 to the normal customer, just enter 8.00 in the textbox accordingly. (Figure 8)
5. After you are done, click on Update All Prices. (Figure 9)
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Figure 8 Building up dealer's price list
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Figure 9 Update prices
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Managing Prices For Other Groups
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1. Allocating your product prices for other groups can be done easily using the same method.
2. Just click on the  icon in the Group List and follow the steps as above.
3. You can Update or Delete each price group detail as well. (Both default groups, Normal and Promotion are not removable.)
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Creating Customer Account
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1. Customers can signup for their customers account in your website. However, they will be assigned as Normal price group by default. You can change their groups anytime later when you are comfortable dealing with them. (Figure 10)
2. To create an account for your customer, click on the Customer icon on your left menu. By default Add Customer form will be shown. (Figure 11)
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Figure 10 Account signup form in website
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Figure 11 Creating a customer account manually
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3. Select the Price Group that you wish to assign to them, fill in the name, company particulars, username and password. (Figure 12)
4. Click on the Add button. (Figure 13)
5. You can now send the new account information with the username and password to your customer.
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Figure 12 Assign a pricing group
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Figure 13 Finishing...
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Customer Account Login
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1. With the username and password of the new account, your customer can now go to your website and login in the Customer Login area. (Figure 14)
2. Upon successful login, customer can browse through your product catalog for the special prices assigned to him or her. (Figure 15)
3. Customer can also keep you up-to-date with his/her contact information.
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Figure 14 Customer logging in
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Figure 15 Accessing special prices in catalog
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Conclusion
The Price Group feature is useful to automate your business sales process to be faster and cost effective. Traditional faxing of quotations have longer sales cycle and add up to the company expenses. We wish this tutorial can be much helpful to your business activities.
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