[SalesForce] Using Product and Pricebooks without set Product Prices

I need to see best practices for our pricing model. We have a SaaS company without a set price. All of our product pricing is dependent on the size of the company that signs up. So I'm not sure how to use the products or price books when we do not have a base price. Almost every client's pricing is different because it's based on their size. We also have one time setup fees that are not part of the subscription

Any help/ideas on how I might implement the products feature in Salesforce under our current pricing model?

Thanks

Best Answer

If it's clear that the size of the organization sets the price, you can build price books with that in mind, such as Small (1-10), Medium (11-100), Large (101-1000), Supersized (10001-100000), etc. All products in the price book would reflect the base price for that category. This would make it easy if all products will have the same relative price simply based on the size of the organization and not other factors, such as volume licensing.

This won't work if pricing depends on licensing volume, where they might buy 5 licenses of type A and 2000 licenses of type B (and thus get a discount for B). In that case, you might define a discount matrix. All products would start at their base price, and each line item would be adjusted by a percent value based on the volume. You could automate this with triggers, or manually if you wanted to give bargaining power to your sales associates.

Line items can be customized many different ways, so a specific solution that suits your business needs would best be served by speaking with an expert in a back-and-forth dialog that includes a discussion about your product, your licensing model, how you'd like to view/report this data, etc.

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