Do your vendors publish list prices and then give you a discount percentage to Calculate your cost? With enhancement ODI - Discount on Purchase Orders, you can enter a discount percentage and the list price when entering your purchase orders, then your cost will be calculated for you automatically.

To use ODI - Discount on Purchase Orders, go to the Unit Cost field and push F5. Enter the Discount Percentage and press Enter, then enter the List Price, as shown below:

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| TYPE  -- DEPT/ITEM #       QUANTITY       UNIT COST     TOTAL COST |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
|    P   CLM876264      |        10.00       0.0000000               |
| DESC: DESIGNER SLACKS | REC UNIT:     SELL UNIT:      RATIO:       |
| VND ITEM #:  9303BB   | COMMENT.:                     Disc%:  0.00 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
|           +=======================================+                |
|           | Discount Percentage:    25.0000000    |                |
|           +=======================================+                |
|                                                                    |
| F1-Help   F2-View Detail                 F5 - Set Discount         |
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Your cost will be calculated and the list price will be saved in the line comment as shown below:

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| TYPE  -- DEPT/ITEM #       QUANTITY       UNIT COST     TOTAL COST |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
|   P    CLM876264      |        10.00      75.0000000        750.00 |
| DESC: DESIGNER SLACKS | REC UNIT:EACH  SELL UNIT:PAIR RATIO:  1.00 |
| VND ITEM #:  9303BB   | COMMENT.:       L:   100.0000 Disc%: 25.00 |
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The same discount will be used for all new lines you enter and for any line you edit. To change the discount percentage, push F5 at the Unit Cost field, and enter the new discount.

The list price is stored in the Comment field. Do not change this field, otherwise ODI - Discount on Purchase Orders will not work correctly. If you need to enter comments on your purchase order, you can use enhancement OBC - Big PO Comment.

Both the list price and the discount amount will be printed on the Purchase Order, as shown below:

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| Item ID   Description    Unit  Quantity   Unit Price   Total Price |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 9303BB  DESIGNER SLACKS  EACH     10.00      100.00        1000.00 |
|                                 Discount on above item     -250.00 |
|                                                                    |
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