Price calculator examples

Calculator examples pair customer answers with the amount your business expects.

What do examples check?

Qcom checks the exact draft, using the same server calculation as the preview. You supply the expected amount; Qcom does not invent an expected result from the rules it is checking.

A live item price is checked when you save and review. Saved examples retain the prices reviewed at that time. Later customer estimates use current prices, so an old example is not a promise of today's price.

How do I choose useful examples?

1. Open the calculator in Catalog → Tools and enter your approved rates.
2. Add a normal set of customer answers and the expected amount in the calculator currency.
3. Add cases for every choice and charge. Include both yes and no, each quantity price break and values just below and at each threshold.
4. Add cases that reach your lowest or highest estimate, if set. Check percentage rules in order: a percentage applies to the subtotal reached before that rule.
5. Choose Check examples, correct any mismatch, then use Preview to try other answers.

For example, a stated rate of GHS 20 for each guest for each hour gives GHS 120 for 3 guests and 2 hours. Adding an optional GHS 10 charge after that gives GHS 130 when the customer chooses it. These are teaching examples, not recommended business rates.

An estimate is illustrative. Booking, ordering, quotes and payments determine their own final amount. Showing an estimate does not create one of those actions.

How do price breaks and rounding work?

A quantity price break uses the first quantity selected for that rule. The editor names the question it uses. If a rule multiplies guests and hours, check whether its threshold applies to guests or hours; it does not apply to their multiplied total.

Calculations keep their precision until the final estimate is rounded for its currency. If you show the breakdown, rounding carries between the displayed lines so they add up to that estimate. A line can differ from rounding that line on its own.

When a lowest or highest estimate applies, the breakdown includes a labelled adjustment. A highest-estimate adjustment subtracts the amount above that limit. Check that every displayed line, including adjustments, adds up to the total.

Why couldn't an example be checked?

• The tool is turned off or not yet published. You can still check an authorised draft; customers need the reviewed version enabled for their item and channel.
• The answers do not fit the question. Choose a listed option, answer yes or no, or enter a number within the allowed limits and steps.
• The expected amount does not match. Check rates, rule order, limits and rounding against your business rules before changing the expected amount.
• A live price is unavailable or you cannot read it. Check the item and your access, or ask a workspace owner or admin. Do not replace a missing price with zero.
• Qcom could not complete the check. Try again. A failed check does not confirm the draft is ready to publish.

Continue with Test a Catalog tool before publication.