Inherited Vs. Override Pricing Values

Overview

This document will go into detail about the differences between inherited vs. override pricing values when viewing your item price profiles.

Inherited vs. Override Values

To most efficiently interpret what you are seeing in a pricing profile, it will be important to understand the difference between inherited and overwritten values. In general, an inherited value comes from the pricing profile and an override value comes from item-level data coming in via manual item creation, NSB item creation, or inventory imports. This concept gets a bit confusing particularly in relation to item imports as any field that you bring indirectly from the import (cost, list, retail, standard cost, or others) are considered override values even though the user isn’t physically overwriting the value for that field in the profile. The inherited value for those fields would all be 0.00 if you hadn’t entered a static value in the profile (which would be a rare use case).

For ease of identification, there is a color code that helps the user see what values on a pricing profile are inherited from the pricing profile and what is overwritten. Blue indicates an override value while gray indicates an inherited value.

Let’s compare the pricing profile we created with some items that are assigned to the same profile

Profile Level

Item Level

Notice that the column prices are all showing as calculated and inherited while the cost and list are override values.

Changing Values

In the event you have overridden some pricing, but prefer to inherit the pricing value based on the profile. NOTE: If you have an overridden price value at the item level, but you’ve made changes to the price profile the item values will not change. It is best practice to use inherited values often and where you can so you can just update minimal information when adjusting your prices.

Overridden to Inherited

To change a price value from overridden to inherited you can do this at either the pricing profile level or the item level.

Go to Inventory > Pricing Manager > Pricing Rules Manager > Item Pricing

Search for your item(s) and locate the price you wish to inherit and right-click on the field.

Select ‘Inherit’. Once you do that you will notice that the value in blue will now be changed to gray (meaning it has been inherited.)

Select ‘Process’ to save your changes.

Inherited to Overridden

To change a price value from overridden to inherited you can do this at either the pricing profile level or the item level.

Go to Inventory > Pricing Manager > Pricing Rules Manager > Item Pricing

Search for your item(s) and locate the price you wish to override and right-click on the field.

Select ‘Override’. Once you do that you can now enter the override value.

The field will now go from gray to blue, letting you know the value has been overridden and no longer using the inherited value.

Select ‘Process’ to save your changes.