How to define seasonal rate structures and taxes
If you use seasonal rate structures, taxes and fees, you must define them in SysManager before setting up product pricing. For some sites, rate structures, taxes and/or fees may not apply. However, if your price structure varies by date, or if you must apply taxes or fees to sales of certain products, you must set up these date ranges, taxes and fees before product setup.
To enter season and date preferences:
1. Go to SysManager > Preferences > Seasons & Dates. The left portion of the Season & Date Preferences dialog has four tabs that contain information about seasonal rate schedules.
2. Use the Season Sched X tabs to define up to four different seasonal rate schedules for pricing products. Click on the relevant tab and enter up to five date ranges during which your product prices change.
Note: If a product is sold outside of these predefined ranges, the default price entered for the product is used.
Note: The dates can be changed at any point, in case you have prices that are linked to conditions rather than to specific dates, although use caution when changing the rate schedules “mid-season” as this impacts every item that is configured to use the rate schedule. If more rate schedules are required than available within the Seasons & Dates preferences, consider implementing Dynamic Pricing Rules for certain products. See the Salesware Dynamic Pricing document for further instruction.
To define taxes:
1. Go to SysManager > Preferences > Seasons & Dates. The right portion of the Season & Date Preferences dialog is used to set up taxes.
Note: The Season & Date Preferences dialog allows two different taxes to be defined with two standard rates each. A rate from both Tax 1 and Tax 2 may be applied per product. In addition, there is a third rate for Tax 1 and Tax 2 that may be defined per product within the SysManager > Activities > DCIs > New/Edit > Price tab.
2. Use the two Tax fields and their corresponding value fields to define up to two taxes to use in pricing products.
Note: If a product is discounted 100%, taxes are not applied to the sale.
Note: Taxes are calculated per item, not for the entire line item quantity.