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Relative Pricing Tiers — pricing that calculates itself

Pricing tiers used to be entirely manual: every product needed a fixed price typed in for every tier. With ten tiers across thousands of products, that's tens of thousands of prices to maintain — and the moment a base price moved, you were updating Wholesale, Distributor, and Employee one product at a time. Relative Pricing Tiers let a tier calculate its own prices from a formula instead. Pick what the tier is based on, set the adjustment, and SKU keeps every product's price in that tier current for you.

✨ What this means for you:

  • Stop hand-maintaining derived prices — define a formula once and every product follows it.
  • When the underlying value changes — a base tier price, a supplier cost, or a product detail — dependent tier prices recalculate automatically.
  • Build charm prices like $79.99 with rounding plus a small fixed adjustment, no spreadsheets required.
  • Price by whatever actually drives the number: another tier, your supplier cost, or a per-unit measurement.

Choose how a tier is calculated​

When you create or edit a pricing tier, switch its type from Absolute (a fixed price you set) to Relative, then choose what it's Based On. A relative tier can derive its price from one of three sources — each with its own simple formula.

The pricing tier dialog showing the Pricing Type toggle and the three "Based On" options: Pricing Tier, Supplier Tier, and Attribute

Off another pricing tier​

The classic case: set a tier as a percentage off (or markup on) another tier. Add an optional rounding rule and a fixed amount, and you can land exactly on charm prices — for example, −20%, round to $1, then −$0.01 turns a $100 base into $79.99. Relative tiers can even build on other relative tiers (up to three levels deep), so a chain like Retail → Wholesale → Clearance all stays in sync from a single base.

Cost-plus from your supplier price​

Sell-prices that should track what you pay can now be cost-plus. Base the tier on a supplier pricing tier, add your markup, and each product's price is calculated from its primary supplier's cost. When a supplier cost changes, the dependent prices follow — no re-keying.

The dialog with the Supplier Tier basis selected, showing the supplier pricing tier picker and a markup percentage

Per-unit by a product attribute​

For catalogs priced by a physical measure — length, weight, area — base the tier on a numeric product attribute. Set a rate per unit and an optional offset, and the price is computed from each product's own value: a "per-metre" tier might be length × $4.00 + $1.50, so a 2 m product prices at $9.50 and a 10 m product at $41.50, automatically.

The dialog with the Attribute basis selected, showing the numeric-attribute picker plus Rate and Offset fields

See every tier at a glance​

The Pricing Tiers list shows each tier's type, what it's based on, and a plain-English summary of its formula — so it's obvious which prices are fixed and which are calculated, and how.

The Pricing Tiers settings list showing absolute and relative tiers with their base source and formula columns

Where to find it​

Go to Settings → Products → Pricing Tiers, then click Create Pricing Tier (or edit an existing one) and set the type to Relative to choose a base. Percentage-based relative pricing off another tier is also available for supplier pricing tiers under Settings → Purchasing.