Price Lists
Price lists are a central feature to SparkLayer and they allow you to set specific pricing for specific customer groups. The Price List tool within the SparkLayer Dashboard lets you manage your available price lists and gives you powerful tools to set the exact pricing you want for your B2B customers.
With SparkLayer, you can support the following types of B2B pricing structure:
Pricing Type | Text |
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Customer-specific |
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Quantity pricing |
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Advanced settings |
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First, go to the Price Lists section within the Dashboard and you'll see the Price List area. In order to get started with Price lists, there are a number of steps to follow:
- 1.First, you either need to use the default "Base" price list or a new price list needs to be created
- 2.Next, prices then need to be imported into the price list. A price list comprises of a product SKU and and associated price. You can upload price lists manually using our built-in CSV import tool, automate this from your backend system (learn more here), or use our Price Editor to manually add pricing.
- 3.Finally, the price list needs to be assigned to a Customer Group in order for customers to see these prices when they login to your website.
If you're looking to also set up pack sizing along with your price lists, you can read our guide for Shopify here.
The base price list is a default price list that is enabled for all SparkLayer accounts. It’s there to allow you to test how SparkLayer works and lets you set up your default B2B pricing for your customers. If your B2B pricing is very simple and you have need for just one price list for B2B customers, you could use the base price to manage all your pricing rules.
Please note, the Base price list acts as your default and cannot be deleted
If you require additional price lists (e.g you need to specify different pricing for different customers), you can do this via creating new price lists.
To create a new price list, click the Create Price List button on the top right.
You'll then be prompted to complete the following information
Item | Details |
Name | The price list name as displayed in SparkLayer. You'll use this name to assign it to a Customer Group. |
Handle | The unique handle (i.e. ID) of the price list that is sent to the backend system. This should match what is set up in the backend system, e.g. base-list |
Currency | The default currency, e.g. GBP |
Finally, when you click the Create price list button, the newly created price list will then show in the list available.
Item | Details |
Name | The price list name |
Handle / ID | The ID of the price list |
Currency | The default currency, e.g. GBP |
Actions | The ability to manually upload prices via a CSV file or delete an existing price list |
Please note, if you're connecting your backend system to SparkLayer, price lists should only be manually added if they aren't automatically imported via your backend system.
Please note, if you're looking to automate your pricing from your backend system (e.g. an ERP), this can also be done via the SparkLayer API.
To get started, click Upload prices on the Price list you want to add prices to. You'll then be prompted with the following screen and asked to upload a CSV file.
A CSV file (or comma-separated values file) is a common format that is used to quickly import structured data. All software systems used for creating spreadsheets will allow you to save a file as a CSV and typically you can do this from the "File" menu. In our example below, we've illustrated how this works in Google Sheets
You can save time and use our ready-made template CSV file and then adapt for your specific pricing structure:
The structure of a price list is very simple and simply comprises of two columns: a sku and a price. In order for the CSV file to import successfully, you simply need to set up the following columns:
Column | Details | Required |
sku | The product SKU as set up in your eCommerce platform or backend system | Yes |
price | The unit price for the SKU (e.g. 14.99).
Note: this must not include a currency symbol (e.g. $, £) | Yes |
Time-saving tip: if you only need to upload prices for certain products, you can do this with 'partial CSV uploads'. Simply create a CSV file with the product SKU and price (as noted above) and this will update any existing pricing SparkLayer holds.
You can also use the Price Editor tool to edit prices rapidly.
The Price Editor tool compliments the pricing import tool, allowing you to easily add and edit pricing in a more "adhoc" manner. For example, perhaps you need to edit a single price for product and add a new one, and you'd prefer not to upload a new CSV file to do this.
The Price Editor tool works by letting you search for a product SKU and then edit and add pricing inline (learn how to find a product SKU)
When you search for a product, you'll see all associated pricing grouped by your price lists. For example, if you're using the Base price list, you'll see this listed first. From there, you can quickly edit pricing or "Add a new price" to add a brand new one.
It's important to note, when adding pricing for a product, there must always be at least one entry for a single unit quantity and it's not possible to remove this.
You can also associated a new price list to a product from the "Select a Price List" section at the bottom. This will show you a list of all active price lists you've set up within the Price Lists area of the Dashboard.
SparkLayer also supports the option to have tiered pricing allowing you to offer discounted prices based on the unit quantities ordered. For example, for 1 unit, the price may be £14.99, but for 5 units the price may be £10.99.
The quantity field in the sample CSV file (named
qty) lets you define the price the customer pays for that specific quantity of the item. In order for the CSV file to import your tiered pricing successfully, it must have the following columns:
Column | Details | Required |
sku | The product SKU as set up in your eCommerce platform or backend system | Yes |
price | The unit price for the SKU at the quantity set in column 3 ( qty) | Yes |
qty | The quantity of the SKU for the specified price for tiered pricing (see below) | No (defaults to 1) |
On set up, the SparkLayer Product Purchasing Interface will clearly show the tiered pricing to your customers. By default, the tiered pricing will show a 'Savings' amount based off the single unit price of the product (or variant). If you'd prefer for the savings amount to be based off the RRP (i.e. retail price), you can configure this here.
How tiered pricing works with variants
When setting up tiered pricing for products that have variants (e.g. colour, size), it's possible to configure how the tiered pricing gets applied.
Type | Behaviour |
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Applying across all variants | Default behaviour
The tiered pricing will take affect across all variants of the product. For example, if a product comes in Small, Medium, and Large and you've set up tiered pricing to take effect with a quantity of 5, the customer would receive the discounted pricing no matter the combination. e.g.
1 x Small
2 x Medium
3 x Large |
Applying to a single variant | Configuration
If you'd prefer to restrict tiered pricing to a specific variant, you can do this by disabling a special setting within the SparkLayer Dashboard. In this example, if a product comes in Small, Medium, and Large, you can set the tiered pricing to only apply to the Large size.
To disable this, please click here. |
It's also possible to display the tiered pricing breaks table anywhere on your product detail page by adding the following code:
<spark-variant-price-breaks
variant-sku="{{ product.selected_or_first_available_variant.sku }}"
parent-id="{{ product.id }}"
></spark-variant-price-breaks>
You can optionally also set the tax type against your prices, such as gross or net simply by adding a new column named tax.
Please note: For merchants using Shopify, the gross tax type is unsupported currently.
When you upload the CSV file, you'll then be shown validation messages based on the content of the file. If the CSV file successfully passes validation, you'll be notified and shown a sample of what has been imported.
Clicking Save Price List will then import the file into SparkLayer and customers will then see these prices when logged in.
If the file cannot be imported, e.g. missing prices or an incorrectly formatted file, you'll be notified with relevant details.
It's important to note that a file can be successfully imported but include missing data, e.g. perhaps a product SKU doesn't exist and prices cannot be matched. You'll be notified of affected SKUs and notes on how to remedy the issue.
If you're looking to import your price lists into SparkLayer automatically from your backend system (e.g. ERP), you'll need to send price list data via the SparkLayer API.
Once you've created and uploaded prices for your Price list(s), you can then assign these to different customer groups. This means you can control which customers see which prices when they sign into your website.
Once you've created a price list and assigned it to a customer group, it's also possible to set up customer-specific discounts on top of the price list giving you even more flexibility in the prices your customers see.
If SparkLayer is unable to process product(s) within the feed, you can find further details within the product feed status box. The product ID (or SKU) is listed along with the associated error that can then be further diagnosed.
SparkLayer will automatically import products once you've connected your Shopify store. By default, all products will be imported however if you want to exclude certain SKUs, you can simply untick the SparkLayer B2B Ordering sales channel within a product to prevent it being imported
You can check if price list data has been assigned to an individual product by using the Data Sync tool. From the Data Sync Tab, click Products and from within the Product Data Lookup tool, search for the Product External ID you have just modified. In the Pricing Data section of the returned JSON, you should then see the pricing data you’ve sent to SparkLayer via the API.
In this example, prices have been sent with tiered pricing
If you can see the pricing data, this confirms that price list data has successfully been sent.
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