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.
- This is done on the "Job fee" tab, under Price list calculation:
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.
