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2.8. Vendor Catalog Costs

The Vendor Catalog Costs screen allows you to manage the costs associated with any external vendor catalog items which you've converted to inventory items in xTuple. From this one screen you can both view your converted items and manage their item costing information. Changes you make to an item's costing information on this screen will be transferred to the xTuple items when you run the Update Catalog option.

To view and manage your converted vendor catalog items, go to Products > Item > Catalog Cost. The following screen will appear:

Vendor Catalog Costs

The Vendor Catalog Costs screen displays cost and pricing information for xTuple inventory items converted from your external vendor catalog. Item and item source records are both displayed here. The Update Catalog Item data using Provider option allows you to select to view TSE, TSP, or all provider catalog costs. To modify information for an item, select the Edit option from the right-click menu.

Note

If your pricing configuration is configured to Use Wholesale Price for Unit Cost for Markups, then your sales commission is based on the item's wholesale price. The catcost information can be used to manage those costs, as well, reflecting a true cost for commissions.

The following buttons are unique to this screen:

IMPORT CATALOG COSTS

Select to import catalog costs from item pricing.

DELETE CATCOST

Select to temporarily clear all item information from the catalog cost table. When you select the UPDATE CATCOST button, this information will be refreshed with the current xTuple item information on file.

UPDATE CATCOST

Select to update your xTuple item information with the information shown on the Vendor Catalog Cost screen. If the two sets of information are in sync, no changes will be made.

UPDATE ITEMS

Select to update the catalog cost data using information from your external vendors' price sheet(s). If you are coordinating with multiple price sheets, you will be given the option to choose the provider whose updates you want to apply.