How to add, modify and delete specific prices in PrestaShop

The different types of special prices

There are three main types of specific prices:

• Those valid over a given period (from such and such a date to such and such a date), which is the typical case of discounts or reductions during sales periods.
• Those valid from a certain quantity of the product purchased, i.e. quantity discounts.
• All others, valid only in a given country or for certain customers only, sometimes called special awards.

Uspecific price can be set in three different ways:

• By applying a value discount, exclusive of tax or VAT (e.g. -5€ VAT on the sales price inclusive of tax). This displays two prices on the site, the new one and the old one, crossed out. 
• By applying a percentage discount (e.g. -5%). This also has the effect of displaying the old crossed-out price below the new price.
• It can also contain a new value for the base price excluding VAT, which will directly replace the product's base price excluding VAT (e.g. €70 excluding VAT instead of €75 excluding VAT). This does not create a crossed-out price. Customers don't even see that they're benefiting from a special price. This technique is therefore mainly used to create special prices for groups of customers (e.g. pro vs. private) or for a specific country.
  
  

How to apply a specific sliding-scale price in PrestaShop

1. Go to "Catalog" as before.
2. Then go to "Product" and open the product sheet.
3. Go to the "Prices" tab.
4. Scroll down the page until you find the "Specific prices" section.
5. Click on the "Add a specific price" button to open an input form.
6. Select "Switzerland" from the list of countries (instead of "All countries").
7. In "Valid from", enter the date April 1st.
8. In "Until", enter the promotion end date, April 30th..
9. In "From", type 5 to indicate that at least 5 copies must be purchased to benefit from the promotion.
10. In "Apply a discount of", enter 5 (discount amount).
11. Choose % (the other choice is € in HT or TTC).
12. Then save.

How to apply a specific price to all products in one or more categories in PrestaShop, with Merlin

Let's now look at how to perform exactly the same operation, but on all products in the same category, the approach is very similar, apart from acting on a selection of products:

1. Display and select all products to be modified.
2. Go to the "Specific prices" tab.
3. If the form is hidden, click on "Change/Add".
4. Choose "Switzerland" in the list of countries (instead of "All countries").
5. In "Valid from", enter the date April 1st.
6. In "Until", enter the promotion end date, April 30.
7. In "From", type 5 to indicate that at least 5 copies must be purchased to benefit from the promo.
8. In "Discount", type 5 (discount amount).
9. In "Type", choose % (the other choice is € in HT or TTC).
10. Click on the "Modify/Add" button.
11. Click on the "View" button if you haven't already, to view specific prices for selected products at the top.

How to mass-modify specific prices with the Merlin module

1. Check that the products to be modified are still selected
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2. Replace the value 5 with 6 in the form
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3. Click on "Modify/Add"
again.

It's also possible to modify discounts en masse by calculation, or to round off prices once discounted, from the same tab

1. Select the specific price lines to be mass-modified.
2. Click on the "Grouped Actions." button and choose the tool to be used, in this case the calculator.
3. Apply an increase, decrease, replacement (=), in % or value, to the parameter of your choice. For example, add 2% to the 6% already entered.

Complete tutorial on special prices, specific prices, setting up sales, importing, rounding with the PrestaShop Merlin Backoffice Flex module (in French)

This video covers all aspects of pricing and therefore goes far beyond what has been presented on this page.

So also included, in addition to specific and sliding-scale prices, are discounts by customer group and product category, the price rounding tool and even the method for importing specific prices from an Excel or CSV file.

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