Setting wholesale pricing & discounts
You can use the WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin to set 3 types of wholesale pricing and discounts:
- A global percentage discount which is deducted from the standard price of all products.
- A category percentage discount which is deducted from the standard price of all products in a specific category (and its sub-categories).
- Product-specific wholesale pricing.
If you have multiple wholesale user roles then you can set different wholesale pricing and discounts for each role.
Global wholesale discount
To set the global percentage discount for each wholesale role:
- Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Products → Wholesale → Roles.
- Hover over the role that you wish to set a wholesale discount for, and click 'Edit'.
- In the 'Discount' field, enter a percentage number between 0-100. You can either add a whole number (e.g. 50) or up to 2 decimal places (e.g. 50.25). Do not enter the % symbol.
- Click 'Save changes'.
- Repeat steps 2-4 to add a percentage discount for each wholesale user role.
Category wholesale discount
To set a category-level percentage discount for each wholesale role:
- Go to Products → Categories.
- When you Add or Edit a category, you will see a 'Wholesale % discount' section. Enter a percentage number between 0-100 for each wholesale role. You can either add a whole number (e.g. 50) or up to 2 decimal places (e.g. 50.25). Do not enter the % symbol.
- Save your changes.
Product-specific wholesale pricing
To set an exact wholesale price for an individual product, you first need to enable product-specific pricing for each wholesale role. You can do this by editing the wholesale role and enabling the 'Product specific pricing' option.
Once product specific pricing is enabled, then you can set a wholesale price for each product:
- Go to the 'Edit Product' page.
- Find the 'Product Data' section.
- Now add the exact wholesale price that you wish to charge for each wholesale user role:
- Simple products - Enter wholesale prices in the 'General' tab of the 'Product Data' section.
- Variable products - Enter wholesale prices in the 'Variations' tab of the 'Product Data' section (open up each variation to edit it).
Sale prices for wholesale users
There are two ways to set sale prices for wholesale users in order to give them an additional discount (e.g. during the holiday season). Both of these options appear when you edit a wholesale role:
Apply wholesale discounts to sale prices
Enable this if you're using percentage-based wholesale discounts and want the wholesale prices to be calculated based on the product sale price, rather than the main price.
For example, imagine that the normal retail price for a product is $100 and your wholesale discount is 50%, but that the product is currently on sale to your retail customers for $50. The product will be charged as follows:
- If 'Apply wholesale discounts to sale prices' is disabled - Wholesale users will be charged $50 (e.g. 50% of the normal product price).
- If 'Apply wholesale discounts to sale prices' is enabled - Wholesale users will be charged $25 (e.g. 50% of the sale price).
Product specific sale pricing
This option is only available for roles where product-specific pricing is enabled. When you enable this, an additional sale price field appears on the 'Edit Product' screen for the wholesale role. That way, you can enter an exact sale price for wholesale users.Â
FAQ
What happens if multiple discounts apply to the same product?
WooCommerce Wholesale Pro contains advanced logic to ensure that wholesale users always see the correct pricing. It looks for a product-specific wholesale price first, and then a category-level discount, and then a global discount for that role. Therefore:
- Product-specific prices override the global and category discounts.
- The category percentage discount overrides the global percentage discount.
- The global discount is only used for products where no product-specific or category-level discount is set.
My customers are seeing the wrong prices!
If this happens then it is probably a caching issue. Please follow the advice in our article about this problem.
Can I set quantity-based bulk discounts?
You can give quantity-based discounts to wholesale users by using WooCommerce Wholesale Pro with our other plugin, WooCommerce Discount Manager. Please read our separate article about this.
Product visibility options
If you want to show different products to wholesale and non-wholesale customers, then the next step is to set your category visibility.
Wholesale visibility options