Re: A query about price matrix code

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Nigel Titley <..hidden..> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've written an oscommerce-ledgersmb bridge and it largely seems to
> work. At the moment it does the following:
>
> 1. Creates new parts in Ledgersmb based on items in oscommerce,
> including price matrix
> 2. Creates new customers in ledgersmb based on oscommerce
> 3. Creates new sales orders in ledgersmb based on orders received
> through the web site.
> 4. Updates website  parts inventory based on ledgersmb.
>
> It runs as a regular cron job at whatever frequency you need. The only
> downside is that website inventory may lag real inventory.
>
> I'm just about to start using this for real. I'm migrating my accounting
> system from gnucash to ledgersmb and during the testing I've come up
> with a problem with price matrices, which may be just my
> misunderstanding, but I can't seem to find what I am doing wrong.
> Basically, I create a generic price matrix for a part (no  pricegroup,
> no customer specific) with breakpoints at various values. When I
> manually create a sales order or a quotation with a quantity that should
> trigger the price break I don't get a price reduction, just the basic
> list price. This happens whether I have entered a part with a price
> matrix manually, or via my bridge.

What do you mean by "a quantity that should trigger the price break?"
I am not entirely sure that quantity discounts are supported.  However
we need something like this for 1.3......

>
> I'm running LedgerSMB V1.2.16 on Ubuntu Hardy. If this is a known
> problem, please accept my apologies and point me at the documentation.

Hmm....  I will have to look into this.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers