Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread Thomas Nadler
Hi. We have noticed a problem with the price calculation for purchase orders that are automatically generated for dropshipments: The product prices of the corresponding sales and purchase orders do not match. Background: The invoked Method makePurchaseOrderItem - that is responsible for the creat

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
Basic concept the price for a product you buy should be less than the price you sell it for. so you get the price you pay for it (last price) Which becomes the baseprice of the product then add what ever to that price to come up with the price (default price) you sell it for. Usually the supplie

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread Jacques Le Roux
From: "BJ Freeman" Basic concept the price for a product you buy should be less than the price you sell it for. so you get the price you pay for it (last price) Which becomes the baseprice of the product then add what ever to that price to come up with the price (default price) you sell it for

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
The actual price can be based on List Price, Default Price, Average Cost, or Promotional Prices, as entered in the Product - Prices screen. thanks Jacques Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 8/17/2010 5:48 AM: From: "BJ Freeman" Basic concept the price for a product you buy should be less

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
also when you have more than one supplier for a product, there are considerations to decide which supplier is used, the last price is part of that determination. In simpler Ecommerce sites the supplier Item code is used for a single supplier. In ofbiz you can use the default productID generated

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
Correction: the base price is used to determine the floor price you will sell and item for when doing promotion calculations. so it can not be used as the price to the supplier. Last price is your only option. BJ Freeman sent the following on 8/17/2010 5:33 AM: Basic concept the price for a p