Products and discounts

Build your commercial proposal by adding items, grouping into kits, and negotiating the perfect price.

Ways to build your Catalog

Before adding products to a quote, Cord allows you to nourish your base catalog in different ways:

1. Manual Creation: Add SKUs one by one, defining their SKU, name, description, unit, and List Price. If you also capture the cost, Cord calculates the list margin automatically and compares it against the margin you actually charge on each sale.
2. Bulk Import via CSV / Excel: Download our template, paste your inventory from your current ERP (SAP, Microsip, Excel), and upload it. Cord detects the name, SKU, unit, and price columns automatically; you can update thousands of products in a single batch.
3. Product Kits (Bundles): If you usually sell the same things together (e.g., Point of Sale Kit: Computer + Barcode Scanner + Thermal Printer), you can create a Kit in Cord. When quoting, simply select the Kit and the system will automatically add all its parts, saving you from searching for and adding the same items multiple times. A kit can carry a fixed combo price, different from the sum of its parts — Cord prorates that total across the lines when it’s inserted.

Volume pricing

From each product’s detail page you can define price tiers by minimum quantity (e.g., 10% off starting at 50 units). When quoting, Cord automatically applies the tier that matches the quantity you entered, so you never have to remember the table or calculate it by hand.

Adding line items to the quote

In the Line Items section of the quoter, you have two options:

1. Search the Catalog: Use the search bar to find the products, services, or Kits you already configured in your catalog.
2. Free-text Line Item: If you need to quote something unique on the fly (e.g., A special weekend installation service), you can add a Free Line. You simply type any name you want, set the quantity, and assign whatever price you want right there, without having to go create a product in the catalog first.

For each item you add, you can customize:

• Quantity: Number of units.
• Override Unit Price: The system will load the Base Price from your catalog, but you can freely edit it on the spot (e.g., lower it from $500 to $450) for that specific quote without affecting the general catalog.
• Notes for the client: Add notes or long descriptions right below the product. If you sell “Consulting”, you can add a note: “Includes 10 hours of frontend development and 2 hours of design”. The client will see these notes under each item in the web link.

Smart Discounts

B2B thrives on negotiation. Cord handles discounts hierarchically:

1. Client Tier Discount (Automatic): If you selected a VIP client, Cord has already applied their base discount automatically.
2. Line item discount: Applied only to a specific product (e.g., 20% off Software, but Hardware is charged full price).
3. Global discount: Applied to the subtotal of the entire quote. You can enter it as a percentage (10%) or a fixed amount in the quote’s currency (e.g., -$5,000).

Real-Time Calculation

As you add products or modify discounts, Cord instantly updates the breakdown at the bottom of the screen:

• Subtotal: Sum of all line items without taxes.
• Discounts: Total subtracted.
• Taxes: Each line item carries its own rate, taken from your country’s tax catalog when you enter it — the name printed is your country’s own (VAT in the UK, GST in Canada, Sales tax by state in the United States, IVA in Mexico and Spain), never a generic label.
• Total: What the client will ultimately pay.