Price book
Also called: Price list, Rate card, Pricing table
A named set of prices for catalog items, used to price differently by region, currency, segment or partner without duplicating the catalog.
A price book is a layer of prices over a product catalog. The catalog says what you sell; the price book says what it costs for a given audience.
Common reasons to run more than one:
- Currency. A USD, EUR and AUD price book, with prices set locally rather than converted at spot.
- Region. Different list prices by market, reflecting willingness to pay and local competition.
- Segment. Education, non-profit or startup pricing.
- Partner and reseller. Wholesale rates distinct from direct list.
- Vintage. Last year’s list price, kept alive for existing customers — see grandfathering.
Why this beats duplicating the catalog
Without price books, each of those variants means a parallel set of products. Ten products across four currencies and three segments becomes 120 entries, all needing to stay in sync, and any structural change has to be repeated 120 times.
With price books, there are ten products and twelve price books. A change to what a product is happens once; a change to what it costs happens in one book.
The discipline it enforces
Price books also make discounting visible. When a quote is priced from a named book, the difference between book price and quoted price is an explicit, reportable discount rather than an unexplained number. That is the difference between knowing your average realised discount by segment and guessing at it — and it is usually the first thing that surprises a leadership team when they finally measure it.
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