Products and pricing

A print shop sells two things at once: the goods, such as a tee, and the decoration on them, such as a screen-printed logo. In YoPrint the goods are a line’s product, and the decoration is a service on the line’s job. In the web app: Products, Services and Product Locations, with Pricing groups in the settings.

What a line can sell

• Line item
  • Supplier catalog product: a style from a connected supplier, such as SanMar, S&S Activewear or AlphaBroder, in its colors and sizes
  • Your simple product: one the shop keeps, in one form
  • Your variant product: one the shop keeps in sizes, colors or both, each a variant
  • Custom line item: anything, with a name and a price
  • Fee: a charge on its own, such as a setup charge

A line's product kind is set when the line is added.

The web app calls the shop’s own products simple and variant products. When adding a line, its Add Product dialog filters them as Custom Simple Product and Custom Variant Product.

Any product line can be marked customer-supplied: the shop decorates the customer’s own garments, and the product costs nothing.

A shop can phase out one of its products. A phased-out product can’t go on new lines, but lines that already have it keep working, and publishing an order with one fails until the line is changed. A product can’t be deleted while an open order, incoming stock, a pending stock adjustment or transfer, or customer-owned stock uses it.

Decoration services

A service is a way of decorating, such as screen printing or embroidery. The shop sets each one up with:

• print locations (service locations in the API), such as front, back or left chest.
• options, such as the number of colors, each with its own price table.
• a price table: a price for each quantity break.

A service goes on a job, at a print location, and every line in the job takes its decoration price. Its pricing type says how locations add up: one price table for every location (single), a separate price for each location after the first (additional), or one flat total for the run, spread over its pieces (single_flat).

How a line’s price is worked out

1. The price is overriddenThe line charges exactly the price it was given
2. The goods are customer-suppliedThe product costs nothing
3. CalculatedThe cost, marked up by the order’s pricing group, or by the first pricing rule that matches

Then the job's decoration price is added, and the line's subtotal is the unit price times the quantity.

A line keeps both its price, what the customer pays, and its cost, what the shop pays. From the two, YoPrint works out the line’s profit, margin and markup.

Pricing groups and rules

A pricing group holds the markups that turn cost into price: a default markup for catalog products, and price tables by quantity. An order uses one:

1. The order's ownChosen on the order
2. The customer's defaultFrom the customer
3. The team's defaultMarked as default in the settings

The same customer can be priced differently on one order by changing that order's pricing group.

Pricing rules, on plans that include them, refine a pricing group: each rule has conditions and a price change. YoPrint checks them from the top, and the first rule that both matches and applies to the line’s kind of product prices it. When none does, a catalog product gets the group’s default markup.

Products, services and pricing fire no events.

In the API

Add line itemsAdd each kind of line, link it to a job, and change lines in bulk.

Look up products and pricesYour products, supplier catalog styles, live prices and stock.