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Ok Ian, so when you talk price in your company, and someone says "'wholesale price", you first, natural reaction is "which wholesale-price are you talking about" ? And I am not talking price finding. I am talking about renaming "wholesale price" to "cost price". Because wholesale-pricing, in all it's beauty and complexity, has been my bread-and-butter subject while working in consulting, and it is daily business now that I am on my own. I am far from suggesting any solution to wholesale-pricing, but if the bases are wrong, and won't get fixed, further development will suffer. Prestashop is the brain-child of software developers, and that shows in details like these. Like Traumflug's suggestion to handle wholesale pricing with customer groups. A perfect example of a solution that has never hit reality. Or not being able to sell fractions of units. What else have I missed ? Prestashop is full of bad decisions. Thirtybees started with good intentions, but it becomes obvious how change-resistant this community is.

No, Ian, there is no ambiguity here at all. They send a pricelist, and they show their wholesale price. This is there to avoid any misunderstanding, because some pricelists also show the retail-price, and the wholesale-customer is informed that his price will be -50% off that price. They write "wholesale" to identify the price-type. So yes, this is their wholesale price. Once you buy from them, you outlay money. And this is a cost you have. Hence: cost-price. And that company might have a retail-price as well. With a retail-pricelist. Just as I, as a business, have a price for end-customers, and this is the retail-price and I have a price for resellers, and this is the wholesale-price. And I have costs to acquire merchandise, which is the cost-price. So far you have evaded my question from yesterday: If you think that "wholesale-price" is the correct field-name for cost-price, how would you call the price you give to a wholesaler ? End-customers is retail-price, Wholesale-customers is what, according to you ?

@Traumflug said in Get this Wholesale thing correct.: This whole strategy looks a bit narrow minded to me. What strategy are you talking about, specifically ?

Calling a dog a cat doesn't make it a cow. So if I as a manufacturer sell both to end-customers and to shops (which in turn sell my goods to end-customers). What do you suggest? Take any business text-book, and you will find that terminology is pretty fixed. Which is why there is so much confusion on the prestashop forum around the usage of "wholesale price". It's just the wrong term, plain and simple.

Maybe it's time to get the wording right for this wholesale-thing. TB would really stand apart. "Cost price" is the acquisition cost of goods. That can be the price the merchant pays for merchandise, or the cost of making things for a manufacturer. "Retail price" is the price end-customers pay. "Wholesale price" is the price a wholesaler pays. A wholesaler, also called reseller, usually buys a larger quantity and gets a price discount to do so. That could be a percentage of the retail price, or a defined price. "Wholesale price" is also called "trade price". Depending on the industry, you could have other, different prices. In my industry (home decoration), you can find "prescriptor prices" : An interior designer who needs 1 piece of something for a project doesn't pay retail, but with a quantity of 1 doesn't qualify for wholesale. As an incentive, he gets a price somewhere between retail and wholesale. So changing "wholesale price" to "cost price" would correct this left-over from Prestashop.