We began using Accubid a few months ago and also signed up for Trade Service to do price updates.
When I signed up for the service i was under the impression that it would basically set my net prices in the database to approx. what we pay locally. In fact we signed up for the "Supplier Link" so that we could access direct pricing from ouR local supplier.
As it turns out, that's not how it works. Trade service updates don't adjust the net pricing in any way. It only adjust the "Column 1" price. We have to manually adjust all our discounts in order to get a net price that is close to what we actually pay.
And although the Supplier Link is useful for checking bids before they go out, it doesn't correct any database pricing and often times there are items that no suppliers provide pricing for. Nice tool, but not a solution for my database concerns.
There are options for what pricing we import into Column 1 via Trade Service. Accubid tech support said that many customers use AMP (average market price), however, I see several potential problems with doing it that way because our current discount percentages would be way out of line, in some cases causing our net price to be well under what we actually pay. Good way to win a job, not a good way to make money.
Just wondering if anyone out there has been through this and what they ended up using to get their database pricing corrected.
Thanks in advance!
Robin Erwin
Erwin Electric, Inc.
When I signed up for the service i was under the impression that it would basically set my net prices in the database to approx. what we pay locally. In fact we signed up for the "Supplier Link" so that we could access direct pricing from ouR local supplier.
As it turns out, that's not how it works. Trade service updates don't adjust the net pricing in any way. It only adjust the "Column 1" price. We have to manually adjust all our discounts in order to get a net price that is close to what we actually pay.
And although the Supplier Link is useful for checking bids before they go out, it doesn't correct any database pricing and often times there are items that no suppliers provide pricing for. Nice tool, but not a solution for my database concerns.
There are options for what pricing we import into Column 1 via Trade Service. Accubid tech support said that many customers use AMP (average market price), however, I see several potential problems with doing it that way because our current discount percentages would be way out of line, in some cases causing our net price to be well under what we actually pay. Good way to win a job, not a good way to make money.
Just wondering if anyone out there has been through this and what they ended up using to get their database pricing corrected.
Thanks in advance!
Robin Erwin
Erwin Electric, Inc.