Price Rules

A price rule turns a supplier cost into a selling price. Each rule does one thing — mark a price up, discount it, or set it to a fixed amount — and you can build a chain of rules that apply in order. Rules are step 4 of the pricing pipeline: they run on the base cost after it has been converted into your store currency.

Rules live under Pricing → Price Rules.

What a rule can do

Every rule has an action that changes the running price:

Action	Effect	Example (on a €100 base)
Percentage markup	Increases the price by a percentage.	+20% → €120
Fixed markup	Adds a flat amount.	+€5 → €105
Percentage discount	Reduces the price by a percentage.	−10% → €90
Fixed price	Replaces the price with a flat amount.	Set €75 → €75

A price can never go below zero — if a discount would push it negative, Malovex clamps it to zero.

Creating a rule

Go to Pricing → Price Rules and select New price rule.
Give the rule a name you’ll recognise later (it appears in the price explanation).
Choose the action and enter its value — a percentage for markup/discount actions, an amount for fixed actions.
Set the priority and, optionally, conditions to scope which products the rule applies to (see below).
Save. Malovex recalculates the affected prices automatically.

Ordering: priority and stopping

When more than one rule applies to a product, they run as a chain — each one works on the price the previous rule produced.

Priority sets the order. A lower number runs first: priority 0 runs before priority 10. Rules with the same priority run in the order they were created.
Stop after this rule halts the chain. If a rule has this turned on, no lower-priority rule runs for that product once it applies. Use it for a rule that should have the final say — for example a fixed price that must not be marked up further.

Scoping a rule with conditions

By default a rule applies to every product. Add conditions to narrow it to just the products you mean. You can match on:

Category — products you’ve placed in a given category.
Feed category — the supplier’s own category path for the product.
Manufacturer.
Supplier — the supplier the offer came from.
Price — the base cost, so you can treat cheap and expensive products differently.
Any attribute — match on a product attribute value.

Conditions combine with and / or, so you can express rules like “manufacturer is Manufacturer 1 and price is over €200”. Leave conditions empty to apply the rule to everything.

Targeting customer groups

A rule can apply to every customer group or only to specific ones. Leave the group targeting empty to affect all groups; name one or more groups to limit the rule to them. This is how you give, say, a trade group a bigger discount than retail customers.

Overriding the price basis

As well as adjusting the price, a rule can change the price basis for the products it targets — for example basing one brand on your preferred supplier while the rest of the catalog uses the cheapest cost. A rule can do this alone (a basis-only rule with no price action), adjust the price only, or both.

Scheduling a rule

Each rule can carry an optional start and end time. Outside that window the rule simply doesn’t apply, which is handy for a seasonal promotion — set a discount rule to run for a fixed period and Malovex switches it on and off for you.

You can also turn any rule off without deleting it, to pause it indefinitely.

Checking a rule’s effect

After you save a rule, open an affected product in My Products and expand its price. The explanation lists every rule that applied, in order, with its effect and the running price after each step — so you can confirm the rule did what you intended. See How Pricing Works.

How many rules you can have

The number of price rules you can create depends on your plan:

Plan	Price rules
Starter	10
Pro	50
Enterprise	500

Turning a rule off still counts it against your limit. If you reach the limit, delete or consolidate rules, or upgrade your plan.