We've updated the way prices are calculated to give you more options in price design. You can now factor time and material usage in separately, and add a fixed cost per piece. To do so, you have to do the following:
Setting up price per unity for a print material:
To set a price (ie. cost) per unity for a material, navigate to "Manage" > "Material Types". To modify the price of an existing material, click on one of the available materials listed in the table. Assign a value for the Cost Per Unit. Click save to continue.
Setting up price per unity for a print material:
To set a Printer Cost Per Hour, navigate to "Manage" > "Printer Types". To modify the Printer Cost, click on one of the available Printers listed in the table. Assign a value for the Printer Cost Per Hour. Click save to continue.
How Pricing Works:
The price is not based on a currency (the $ amount only indicates that it's a value), in other words it has a conversion value of 1. So when the user looks at an order in DKK, for example, the price for the material would be multiplied by the number you listed in the Currency page. Currencies only affect orders, not other parts of the systems like the Printer Type one you are now in.
Next, on the same Printer Type page (below the Printer Cost per Hour field), you can set the weighting between Printer Time and Material. This is of 100. If you allocate 100 to Printer Cost Scale Factor, and leave Material blank then only the Printer Time is going to be reflected in the final cost, and vice versa. Of course you can have a balance.
You can also set a Overhead Cost Per Price. This is a fixed $ amount that will be added to the cost off every part made. If you want Post Processing costs to be considered in the final you have to set a cost at each Post Processing Type by setting a Cost per Minute and an average duration (in seconds).
As a result of these changes we've also made a small change to the way way the price is displayed, as you can see in the Example Estimate on the right of the new price settings:
Each Price now has a Material Cost as well as a Bureau Cost. That Bureau Cost is the sum of the calculation described above and includes these costs:
Print Time * Per hour print cost
Main Material used * Material cost per unit
Support Material used * Support Material cost per unit
Overhead cost per print
Post Processing Cost (sum of the fixed costs of each step in the workflow)
PLEASE NOTE: Whenever the line item is changed, the price currently changes too.
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