Qualitative Price Management Method

摘要

Disclosed herein is a method of qualitative price management for businesses, which schedule services that use crews, the method comprising: providing a software application; gathering base pricing data for a requested service; displaying a matrix of qualitatively-adjustable global discount factors; qualitatively adjusting the global discount factors; using a pricing algorithm to determine a base daily discount rate for an individual day using the gathered base pricing data and the qualitatively-adjusted global discount factors; storing the calculated base daily discount rates in a database; displaying the calculated base daily discount rates in a monthly calendar format along with a qualitatively-adjustable discount override for each day; if further daily discount adjustment is desired, qualitatively-adjusting the total discount for a given day by using the qualitatively-adjustable discount override in the displayed monthly calendar; and color-coding the total daily discount depending on the size of the discount.

主权项

1. A method of qualitative price management for businesses, said method comprising: providing a software application; gathering base pricing data for a requested service in said software application; displaying a matrix of qualitatively-adjustable global discount weights in said software application; using said software application to qualitatively adjust said qualitatively-adjustable global discount weights; using a pricing algorithm in said software application to calculate base daily discount rates for each day in a calendar using said gathered base pricing data and said qualitatively-adjusted global discount weights; storing said calculated base daily discount rates in a database that interacts with said software application; displaying said calculated base daily discount rates in a graphic user interface in said software application along with a qualitatively-adjustable discount override for said each day; and, if further daily discount adjustment is desired, qualitatively-adjusting the total discount for a given day by using said qualitatively-adjustable discount override in said displayed graphic user interface in said software application.