Create Price matrix

Create Pricing Matrix

Price Matrix allows the Job Type to follow a certain matrix. A price matrix is defined for each type of Print. For example, a matrix is defined for Letter size paper with colour print. The price matrix in this case requires number of pages and copies to find the price. Alternatly a matrix is used to calculate the cost of a product per square inch and will use the matix to calcualte inches times the number of copies

To Create Pricing Matrix Select Services/Price Matrix

Click the Add new Price Matrix link

Add new 

 Fill in the following fields:

Name: Name of Price matrix, it is preferred to use names that reflect the size of paper, e.g. Letter (8.5x11)

Width: Width of paper used in inches (8.5 inches for Letter size)*

Height: Height of paper used in inches (11 inches for Letter size)*

Colour: Select from Colour/Black and White/Wide Format

 *These values are ignored if choosing wide format

 Click Insert to add the Print Service to create the Price Matrix entry

1. Click the matrix you just Created. The cells on top are used to enter number of copies. 

2.The cells on left are used to enter number of pages or inches for wide format.

3.The other cells are where to enter the price for 1 page or the price of 1 squared inch for wide format. 

4. Clicking Update Matrix saves the data and also opens other cells to enter new quantities. 

For the standard print (not the wide format) the matrix will display with the number of copies on the top and the number of pages on the left. For Wide format the number of pages is substituted with Area in squared inches.

The Matrix starts, by default, with values of 1 for copies and pages (or area). This number cannot be deleted. Other numbers can be added in either direction. Every time a number is added fill the fields with the price that corresponds to the Copies/Pages or Copies/Area fields.

Click Update Matrix button will save the matrix as well add more cells to enter copies or pages on the page.

Example: fill the cell in the intersection of Copies = 1 and Pages = 1 with a value 1.00, then type 10 in copies row at the top and another 10 in the pages column to the left. Type 0.80 under the 10, type 0.90 to the left of the pages 10, and then type 0.70 in the intersection of the two 10s. This means that one copy of a 10 page document costs 1*10*0.9 = $9.0 while 10 copies of a one page document costs 10*1*0.8=$8.0. Ten copies of a 10 page document costs 10*10*0.7=$70.0. One copy of a 5 page document will cost 1*5*1.0=$5.0, so does five copies of a one page document. Prices are specified per unit and not the total of the quantity or copies.

This matrix will be used when the customer selects Letter (8.5x11) as the output size of his document.