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.