Sales prices, discounts, surcharges and margins

🌐 NL · Last reviewed: 27 May 2026

Sales prices, discounts, surcharges and margins

DXSteel uses a layered pricing structure: a base price (Sales Price), optional length surcharges and length discounts (based on length brackets), and a minimum margin floor. Prices are filtered by customer, customer price group, all customers, or campaign — with currency, variant, UoM, and minimum quantity break-points.

The pricing layers

Sales Price (base) — unit price per UoM. Valid within start/end date, optionally with a minimum quantity.
Length surcharge — fixed surcharge applied when the line length falls within min/max bounds.
Length discount — fixed discount within min/max bounds.
Margin floor — Minimum Margins guards against below-cost sales.

Setup workflow

Open Sales Prices via Tell Me and add one price record per item or item price group.
Pick the right Sales Type: Customer / Customer Price Group / All Customers / Campaign. Campaign locks the date range from the Campaign card.
Fill Unit Price, Price Unit of Measure (Steel UoM: KG, MTR, PCS, …), optionally Currency Code.
For length-based surcharge or discount: set Length Surcharge Min/Max Length, Length Surcharge Amount, or the Discount counterparts.
Set Minimum Quantity for volume-tiered pricing.
Add a Minimum Margin record per item/customer to define the margin floor.
For batch updates: use the Sales Price Worksheet (next page).

Field reference

Field	Purpose	Mandatory
Sales Type	Customer / Customer Price Group / All Customers / Campaign.	Yes
Sales Code	Customer No., Price Group code, or Campaign code — blank for All Customers.	Conditional
Unit Price	Base price per Price Unit of Measure.	Yes
Price Unit of Measure	Steel UoM. Mandatory together with Unit Price and length-based surcharge/discount.	Yes
Currency Code	Blank = local currency. Auto-filled from customer for customer-specific prices.	Conditional
Starting / Ending Date	Validity window. Read-only when Sales Type = Campaign.	No
Length Surcharge Min/Max Length	Length bounds for the surcharge to apply.	No
Length Surcharge Amount	Fixed surcharge in currency.	No
Length Discount Min/Max + amount	Same for discount.	No
Minimum Quantity	Threshold for volume pricing.	No
Allow Line Surcharge / Line Disc. / Invoice Disc.	Booleans toggling permission for additional layers.	No
Margin Percentage / Margin Amount	Mutually exclusive per record. Percentage clears Currency and Price UoM.	No

Best practices

Customer price groups first: configure groups (Gold/Silver/Bronze or segment-based) and link customers via the customer card. Per-customer overrides become the exception, not the rule.

Separate margin techniques: use Margin Percentage for a general floor (e.g. 8% above cost), Margin Amount for a strict euro floor.

Margin percentage and margin amount are mutually exclusive: filling one automatically clears the other.

Common errors

Message	Cause / fix
"%1 cannot be after %2"	Starting Date is after Ending Date. Adjust the dates.
"It is not possible to use %1 as %2 for volumes pricing. Do you want to use %3?"	The chosen UoM is not a base UoM. Confirm to switch automatically.
"%1 must be blank."	Sales Code populated while Sales Type = All Customers. Clear the field.
"The %1 cannot be larger then the %2."	Length surcharge / discount Min is greater than Max. Fix it.

Sales Price Inquiry and Worksheet
Minimum Margins — margin floors per item/customer.
Sales Costs, Sales Line Costs, Sales Line Discounts.
Sales Prices and Line Discounts — combined maintenance page.

[Screenshot: Sales prices list with length brackets and margin column]