Groups

Groups works as an aggregator of one or multiple criteria. This will allow to differentiate the price by allowing a selection and the filtering of relevant criteria that influences their product prices. The list of criteria currently includes:

• customer location

• customer sales area

• customer label

• trip originating container

• trip driver

The existing groups are shown in the groups overview section in a list view. They are ordered by alphabetically.

Within this list you will see the following information in an overview:

• Group name 
• Criterion 
• Create by
• Created at 
  
• Action (edit and delete)

Within the group edit (action button) you will observe the group details general information including the group name (editable), the ability to change or add new criteria and to edit the vales of those criterion. By pressing the Save Changes button the modifications made will be saved an implemented in the listings that are using that specific group.

Note that the system: 

• Do not allow the creation of new groups with the same exact name of existing groups 

• Do not allow the creation of groups with the exact same values for the exact same criteria - to avoid inconsistencies and duplicated data
  

To create a new group, you can click the button "+ New Group". To finish the group creation you will have to fill out the mandatory fields, Group name, Criteria, Values (from the selected criteria).

In the example bellow the criteria Customers sales area with Kilifi, Mombasa and Kabati values where selected and criteria Customer ID with the values Blessed Mini Shop, Blessed County Stores and Diamond 1211 values selected. Click the Submit button to finish the group creation.

This means that if a new listings selects the VIP customers group those prices will be applied in the customers sales areas and in the customers ID selected in the group configuration.