How do rounding, outliers and the smallest change work?

At the top of Strategy, under "applies to every proposal", three settings sit above all your rules. Whatever goal a rule has, these apply to its proposals. Click change to edit them and done when you are finished. Changes save straight away and you see "Saved."

Changing them needs the Supervisor or Admin role. Other roles can read them.

Prices end in

Pick how a proposed price ends: Whole euro, .50, .95 or .99. Do not round is the default.

priceq rounds to the nearest price with that ending, up or down. A price of 1,209.41 with .99 becomes 1,208.99. The rounding is the last step and never crosses your minimum price or ceiling: if the rounded price would, the limit wins. In "why this price" the step shows as Price ending.

Outliers

One competitor with a strange low price, for example a used item or a wrong page, can pull a proposal down. With Ignore, the default, priceq leaves out any competitor price below half of the middle price of the field. That only happens when there are at least three competitor prices to compare. With Count them, every price counts.

Shops that show a price but are sold out never count. "why this price" then says, for example, "1 shop left out (sold out)".

Smallest change

A change of a few cents costs you a click and buys nothing. priceq only proposes a new price when the move clears both:

• Smallest change in percent: 0.5% unless you change it.
• Smallest change in euros: €0.50 unless you change it.

When a move is smaller, there is no proposal, and an older proposal for that product that you have not decided on yet is removed. After you click Refresh proposals the message counts these products as "already right".

A product without a current price in your shop always gets its proposal, because priceq cannot judge the size of the move.

For more, read how to pick a pricing goal and why a product is blocked or has no proposal.