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Essendant Cost Price Files

Learn about the Essendant cost price file and how it's used.

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Written by Niall Diamond
Updated over 2 months ago

Setting Up Essendant Cost Price File Integration

To automate the retrieval of cost prices from Essendant, follow these steps to set up the integration:

Supplier Setup:

  • Navigate to the supplier settings in the system.

  • Locate and select Essendant as the supplier.

  • Enter your Essendant-provided account code.

  • Enable the cost price toggle.

  • Enable "Hide items with No Cost Price" toggle

    • This is recommended to deal with discountinued items

Automated Cost Price Retrieval:

  • Once the setup is complete, our system will pull the cost prices every night.

  • On the backend, we automatically send the account details to Essendant, and they generate the required cost file for us.

    • If Essendant fails to create the file no update will occur.

FAQ

Handling Tiered Cost Prices

Essendant applies volume-based cost adjustments based on total order quantities. For example:

If two separate customers place orders for the same item (e.g., a red pen) on the same day, and their combined quantity reaches a threshold (e.g., four pens), Essendant may provide a better cost price to the dealer.

However, EvoX does not currently merge multiple orders to determine potential bulk pricing adjustments.

This is also true when you have a single customer ordering in bulk. We only apply the one highest cost that we get from Essendant.

EvoX calculates pricing based on a single highest cost and does not consider cumulative qty from orders when applying discounts.

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