Price Basis

When the same product reaches you from more than one supplier, each supplier has its own cost. The price basis decides which of those costs Malovex starts from before it converts currency and applies your price rules. It is the very first step of the pricing pipeline.

The three bases

Malovex offers three ways to choose the base cost:

Basis	What it does
Cheapest	Starts from the lowest supplier cost for the product. This is the default.
Preferred supplier	Starts from a supplier you nominate. If that supplier doesn’t carry the product, Malovex falls back to the cheapest cost so the product still gets a price.
Highest margin	Evaluates every supplier’s cost through your rules and starts from the one that ends up with the largest margin.

Your account has one default basis that applies to every product. Cheapest is the default until you ask us to change it.

Setting your default basis

Your account-wide basis (and your preferred supplier, if you use that basis) is configured for you by the Malovex team. Tell us which basis you want and we’ll set it. Individual price rules can still override the basis for the products they target, as described below.

Your own stock always wins

The basis only decides between suppliers. Whenever you hold your own stock of a product, your own cost becomes the base instead — for as long as you have units on hand — no matter which basis is set. This is Sell-Own-First, and it overrides both the account basis and any per-rule basis override.

Overriding the basis for some products

You don’t have to use one basis for your whole catalog. A price rule can set its own basis for just the products it targets. For example:

• Use Cheapest across the catalog, but base one manufacturer’s products on your preferred supplier for that brand.
• Base a specific category on highest margin while everything else stays cheapest.

When several rules could change the basis for a product, the highest-priority one wins. A rule can change the basis, adjust the price, or both — see Price Rules for how to set that up.

How to tell which basis was used

Open any product in My Products and expand a price in the Prices section. The explanation names the base offer — the supplier the cost came from (or My Inventory when you’re selling your own stock) — so you can always see which basis actually applied for that product and group.