How do I change prices across hundreds of stores at once without selling under cost?

One price list feeds every store in the network. Update the price list and the change reaches every store in seconds, with margin floors holding so no location can sell under cost.

A price list holds cost, markup, margin, quantity tiers, size surcharges and decoration charges by product or by category. Stores read from the price list rather than keeping their own copies, which is why the change lands everywhere at once instead of being pushed store by store. Lock modes decide how much freedom a location gets: lock the cost and let the location set its own markup, or lock the sell price outright so every store in the network shows the same number. Margin warnings fire when a price would fall under the floor, and the floor wins. Different customer groups can carry different sheets, so a national account keeps its negotiated pricing while the public store does not.

Without one price list, a blank cost increase means opening every store and editing products, or emailing locations to do it themselves and hoping they do. For a network with hundreds of stores that is days of work, and during those days some stores are still selling at last month's cost with this month's invoice already booked.

The price list reads markup and margin both ways, so a 60 percent markup shows as 37.5 percent margin next to it and nobody argues about the math on a call. The caveat: locations used to setting their own prices notice a lock immediately. Most networks start with cost locked and the markup open, then tighten only where consistency matters, like a national program.

See price lists, lock modes and margin warnings.