Price groups ("the old way")

Price groups offer a basic way of linking job fees to job types. The logic is quite simple:

• For relevant Job types and Units, you specify a fee
  • See screenshot below
• The fee is then automatically calculated based on, for example, the running time of the part

How to use

• Create a Price group (under Tools & Data / Price groups)
  • This is the unchanging unit which you can connect to users
• Add at least one price list to the price group
  • By using price groups, you can update the fees over time and specify a point in time when the new fees are used.
  • The jobs, as a consequence, need a Delivery date in order for the fee to be calculated
• Attach Price groups to users/people 
  • Here, as well, you can specify a date. These dates allow you to swap price groups for users over time without affecting the fees of old jobs. 
• Specify that the jobs should use this form of calculation
  • This is done on the "Job fee" tab, under Price list calculation:
    • "Use project data" will combine project data such as the number of units for the part with a price group
    • "Use specifications" will let you specify, for example, a different number of units, but still make use of a price group.
      • Example: the running time of the part is 100 minutes, but the freelancer only translated half of it.  

Limitations

• A price group only supports a single currency
• Exceptions cannot be made for different target languages
• Prices remain dynamic even after jobs are accepted or grabbed
• All of these issues are addressed by using a Resource matrix instead.