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Old 06-13-2007, 11:13 AM   #1
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Does anyone know of a good and cheap program that allows you to easily update client pricing? We have about 7 clients and when we have a materials price increase it would be nice to just adjust prices across the board by a certain percentage. That way everyones pricing increases to their relative price.

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Old 06-13-2007, 12:20 PM   #2
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Write this in excel and set up one worksheet as a separate price sheet to pull everybodies prices from. Everybodies individual worksheet would do the calculations off the single price sheet. You change the single price sheet and everybodies individual prices recalculates based off the new price changes.
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I though about writing a program like that in php for my website, but decided that it was a bad idea. On one hand it is simple and could attract customers, but on the other hand it might repell them by giving them a price that is too high as a result of their faulty entry into the program.
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Do you want this for a billing program, or part of a shopping cart for a website? Check out Quickbooks, from the brief info you gave it sounds like it might do the job for you if you just need a billing program.
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Write this in excel and set up one worksheet as a separate price sheet to pull everybodies prices from. Everybodies individual worksheet would do the calculations off the single price sheet. You change the single price sheet and everybodies individual prices recalculates based off the new price changes.
That sounds exactly like what I need. I can probably do it, but my skills at excel won't allow me to do it quickly! It will be nice since we have about 70 different plans that we need price adjustments every 8 months or so. Going through everyones files and multipling the increase by the sqft for each plan is time consuming. Thanks for the idea!
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