Pricing your products and
services correctly is key to achieving higher margins and
ongoing profitability. To stay on top of the thousands
of product introductions and price changes that occur within
the IT industry, and to provide just the right pricing for
your customers, FourChain incorporates multiple methods to automate
the pricing process.
Pricing Automation
Features
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Automated Nightly
Downloads
With built-in automation
for top-tier IT distributors and able to automate
price file imports from almost any source, FourChain keeps
your product and pricing database up-to-date via
automated nightly downloads.
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Supplier Filtering
Flexible user-group
based supplier filtering lets you control which
product sources are available to which
clients/users, providing the ultimate in product
sourcing/pricing control.
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Supplier Prioritization
Where multiple product
sources carry the same item, your suppliers can be
ranked for priority allowing you to steer business
to your preferred business partner.
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Automated Price
Comparison - Supplier Selection
FourChain can be set to
automatically recommend your lowest cost supplier
for any item, based upon availability rules you
control.
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Unlimited, Dynamic
Customer Account Profiles
Create any number of
account profiles to determine the product mix and
pricing applied to a specific client or group of
customers. Account profiles are dynamically
applied so that a change in the item's cost can
immediately trigger a new selling price.
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Contract Pricing
Specific item pricing
for special customer contracts can be uploaded as a
file or maintained as fixed item pricing via an
account profile,
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Price / Cost Overrides
Sales team members have
full control to override automated pricing on an
item by item basis. Administrator access
provides complete pricing database control.
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Real Time Price &
Availability
Built-in 'real time'
access to top-tier IT distributors means your sales
team can instantly access multiple suppliers price
and availability right from the product search
results or quote screen. Save time and earn
better margins while eliminating the need to access
multiple distributor websites.
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Real Time Price / Cost
Updates
Real time access
automatically updates your local FourChain database
to keep your system current throughout the day.
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Client Pricing History
Access client
transaction history for determining product pricing
history.
