The Bulk Pricing Updater Tool offers store owners a quick and easy way to apply, update, and delete bulk pricing rules on items. BigCommerce supports three different types of bulk discounts: a set selling price, a percentage off, or a dollar value off, all of which can be applied with this tool via a CSV file upload.
It’s important to note that BigCommerce does not support bulk pricing on variants, unless you are using customer groups and price lists. In that case, you would need to use our Price List Bulk Pricing Updater to apply bulk pricing rules to variants.
Step 1: Create Your CSV File
The Bulk Pricing Updater Tool allows you to update bulk pricing on items by uploading a CSV file.
To begin, you will first need to create a CSV file with your bulk pricing data. Your CSV file must contain these supported fields:
- SKU – the item’s SKU, this is not the BigCommerce Product ID, but the actual SKU. Our tool does not require the use of the BigCommerce Product ID. SKUs for variants can be entered as well.
- min qty - the minimum quantity of the item the customer must add to their cart in order to trigger the bulk pricing. You can have multiple minimums for quantity breaks such as 1 - 5 no deal, 6 - 10 $2 off, 11 - 15 $5 off, etc.
- type – the type of bulk discount to be offered based on the quantity, the acceptable values are:
- fixed - a fixed price, such as $99.
- percent - a percent to be taken off the regular price, such as 10%.
- price - a flat dollar value to be taken off the regular price, such as $1.
- amount – the fixed, percent or price value. This field can also be used to delete bulk pricing rules. Please see the step below called "How to Delete Bulk Pricing Rules on Items" for how to use this option.
In this example CSV file, the bulk pricing would be set up as follows:
Item HD1234:
- Quantity 1 - 5: $Regular Price
- Quantity 6 - 12: $0.79
- Quantity 13 - 24: $0.69
- Quantity 25 - 50: $0.59
- Quantity 51+: $0.49
Item PR5678:
- Quantity 1 - 5: $Regular Price
- Quantity 6 - 12: 5% off Regular Price
- Quantity 13 - 24: 10% off Regular Price
- Quantity 25 - 50: 15% off Regular Price
- Quantity 51+: 20% off Regular Price
Item DD9876:
- Quantity 1 - 5: $Regular Price
- Quantity 6 - 12: $0.25 off Regular Price
- Quantity 13 - 24: $0.35 off Regular Price
- Quantity 25 - 50: $0.45 off Regular Price
- Quantity 51+: $0.50 off Regular Price
Step 2: Launch Tool & Select File
To begin, launch the Bulk Pricing Updater Tool from the tile on the Your Store Tools dashboard.
Select your CSV file and click Next.
Step 3: Map Your Fields
Map the columns in your CSV file to the appropriate fields, then click Next.
Step 4: Select Your Notification Type and Submit
By default, Your Store Tools will provide a notification on the dashboard as well as a notification via email when the job is complete. If you choose not to receive a notification via email, you can turn this option off on this screen, or change the email address it will be sent to.
Once your selection is made, click Submit to finish.
How to Delete Bulk Pricing Rules on Items
Our tool also allows you to remove bulk pricing tools from items using the same CSV you created the pricing with. To remove bulk pricing, simply use the word delete as the amount value in your file, as shown in the example below:
In this instance, the bulk pricing values would be removed completely from SKU PR5678.
Additional Tool Features
By accessing the stacked menu in the upper right corner of the tool's tile from the dashboard, you can access the following:
- History - a list of the last 7 days of processing history for this tool.
- Help - a link to this support document.
Additional Options for Premium Plan Subscribers
Scheduling a Tool to Run at a Later Day and Time
Premium subscribers have access to schedule tools to run in advance. This option will be displayed after you set your notification type.
By default, the scheduling option is set to No. If you do not want to schedule the tool, click Submit.
If you want to schedule the tool to run at a later time, click Yes.
From here you can select to schedule the tool to run at a specific date and time:
The scheduled start time is the time the tool will run, not complete.
Once you set the day and time for the tool to run, click Submit.
Scheduling a Tool to Run on a Recurring Schedule
Premium subscribers have access to schedule tools to run in advance. This option will be displayed after you set your notification type.
By default, the scheduling option is set to No. If you do not want to schedule the tool, click Submit.
If you want to schedule the tool to run at a later time, click Yes.
From here you can select to run the tool on a recurring basis:
Options for recurring jobs include:
- Schedule Start Date and Time: The day and time the first instance will run.
- Repeat: The recurring schedule for this tool, which can be:
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Specify Hour: The hour of the day the tool will run.
- Times are based on the time zone set up in your Company Profile.
- Recurring runs can only be schedule at the top of the hour.
- Ends: When the recurring job should stop. Options include:
- Never
- After a set number of runs have completed
- On a specific date and time
The scheduled start time is the time the tool will run, not complete.
Once your recurring options are set, click Submit.
Scheduling the Update Guest Order Tool to Automatically Check Historical Orders
In addition to the regular scheduling option available on all tools with the premium plan, the Update Guest Order tool allows store owners an additional scheduling option for checking historical orders on a regular, recurring basis.
This additional schedule, allows you to do the following:
- Schedule a daily run to check and associate orders from the previous day.
- Schedule a weekly run to check and associate orders from the previous day, week, two weeks, or three weeks.
- Schedule a monthly run to check and associate orders from the previous day, week, two weeks, three weeks, month, two months, or three months.
In order to use this method for scheduling, you must set the schedule by going to the tool's tile in the Your Store Tools dashboard and select Create Schedule from the stacked menu:
From there you can schedule the tool to run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
Did you find an error or need additional support? Contact us at support@yourstorewizards.com to let us know!