Step by step
Change prices in bulk
Raise or lower every price in a category or a brand by a percentage, rounded the way you choose. Kila shows every new price before it applies, and records the change.
When a supplier raises a whole range, change every price in the category or brand at once. Prices include VAT, and Kila rounds the new ones to the step you choose.
Open Products › Categories and pricing, then Bulk price change
“Preview every new price before it applies. Prices round to the nearest step you choose.”
Steps 1 to 5 on one screen. Choose the category or the brand
Choose a Category, a Brand or both. Preview new prices stays grey until you choose one.
Type the change
A percentage, such as 5. “Use a minus sign to lower prices.”
Choose how to round
In Round to: No rounding, Nearest shilling, Nearest 5, Nearest 10, Nearest 50 or Nearest 100.
Tap Preview new prices
Kila lists every price that will change: here 2 prices will change, “+5%, rounded to the nearest 10.” Each product shows its price Now and New, and its Margin now and New margin.
Steps 6 and 7 on one screen. Check the new prices
Nothing has changed yet. Tap Cancel to change the percentage or the rounding.
Tap Apply
The button counts the prices, such as Apply 2 prices. Kila says Prices updated: “2 products changed by +5%. The change is in the audit log.”
The change is recorded under Products › Margins, Changes made, as a Bulk change with its number, its shelf labels to print, a PDF and Undo.
Some products would sell below cost
Link to this section: Some products would sell below costKila marks them in the preview. Lower the percentage, or leave those products out by choosing a narrower category or brand.
Lowering prices takes products below their minimum margin
Link to this section: Lowering prices takes products below their minimum marginIf the owner has set minimum margins, the preview says, for example, 2 products would go below the minimum margin: “Each is marked with the lowest price that keeps its minimum. Applying asks for a reason, and owners are told.” Each line shows its minimum and the price it needs, such as min 18%, needs KES 1,118.
When you apply, Kila asks Why is this price lower?: “You can still save it. Owners are told, and the reason is kept in the audit log.” Type the reason and tap Save anyway, or Cancel.
You changed the wrong prices
Link to this section: You changed the wrong pricesUndo the record under Changes made: see Fix prices below the minimum.
Good to know
A price changed on the product itself is recorded too, but not undone from there: “Prices changed by hand are recorded for their shelf labels; change them back on the product.”
- Schedule a price change: new prices from a date and time.
- Print shelf labels: labels for a price change.
- Set up a price list: different prices for some customers or one branch.
Next: Print shelf labels for the new prices.