Distribution 101 + Advanced Pricing
If managing price contracts, customer discounts, or vendor-based pricing changes is slowing down your quoting and order processes — you’re not alone. That’s why Rover ERP continues to expand its distribution and pricing capabilities to help manufacturers and distributors build smarter pricing strategies and respond to market shifts faster.
In our June Master Class, we spotlighted powerful new pricing tools that give your sales and operations teams more control, flexibility, and automation — all while preserving the simplicity Rover ERP is known for.
What You’ll Learn
Foundations of Pricing in Rover
- Review how standard price codes work
- Understand contract pricing with C Price that guarantees customer-specific pricing
- Learn why contract pricing supersedes all other pricing rules for consistent quoting
Advanced Pricing Tools: M Price & O Price
- Explore M Price, which lets you define price multipliers based on customer class (like retail or dealer) and product groups
- See how O Price can override pricing at a more granular level by customer, part number, or even shipping location
- Gain flexibility to manage discounts, markups, or sale pricing across a wide range of scenarios
Product Groups & Basis Codes
- Use product groups to organize SKUs for more efficient pricing rules
- Set basis codes to tie your pricing to vendor price lists or other reference points
- Simplify how you handle list price updates and ensure pricing stays in sync
Real-Time Price Calculation with Price Q
- Validate pricing instantly with Rover’s built-in calculator
- Ensure customer-specific prices, quantity breaks, and overrides work as expected
- Avoid errors or pricing disputes by confirming logic on the spot
Vendor Price Imports
- Coming soon: import vendor price lists in bulk
- Map Excel columns to Rover’s pricing data
- Automate how changes flow through to customer pricing
Real-World Benefits
- Reduce manual price updates and errors
- Protect margins with more consistent discount structures
- Respond to vendor price changes faster and more reliably
- Simplify training for new sales team members with clear, centralized pricing logic
- Boost confidence for your quoting and customer service teams
What’s Coming Soon
- Vendor price import tools to quickly update large pricing tables
- More dynamic logic for complex pricing overrides
- Additional user-friendly views to review and validate pricing updates
Price Smarter, Quote Faster
Rover ERP’s expanded pricing and distribution features help your team manage contracts, discounts, and markups with precision — all from a single, easy-to-use system. Whether you’re supporting complex dealer networks or protecting margins on your fastest-moving SKUs, Rover makes advanced pricing simple and scalable.
And this is just the beginning — stay tuned for more enhancements in next month’s Master Class!
