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Glossary

This glossary explains the key terms used throughout the Quantaprice documentation. The goal is to provide clear definitions for concepts, structures, and behaviours that form the foundation of the pricing model.

Article​

A product or SKU stored in Quantaprice. Articles may contain metadata and are referenced by pricelists and bundles.

SKU​

Stock Keeping Unit — the unique identifier for an article.

Price Structure​

The full set of price data for a single SKU within a single pricelist, including base prices, quantity breaks, metadata, scheduled updates, and history.

Pricelist​

A collection of price structures with its own metadata, VAT mode, rounding rules, and inheritance parent. Pricelists define the context in which prices are evaluated.

Inheritance​

The mechanism by which a child pricelist reuses values from a parent pricelist, unless explicitly overridden.

Override​

A field defined on a child pricelist that replaces the corresponding value from the parent pricelist.

Bundle​

A composite product consisting of multiple SKUs or a fixed-price definition. Bundles can be fixed, component-based, or hybrid.

Quantity Break​

A tier of pricing based on minimum purchase quantity.

VAT Mode​

Defines how VAT should be applied when calculating prices:

  • VAT included
  • VAT excluded
  • Use article VAT class

Rounding​

The final step of price evaluation, applying the rounding rules configured for the pricelist.

Metadata​

Key–value information attached to articles or pricelists. Used for internal organisation, segmentation, and optional pre-selection of SKUs.

Scheduled Update​

A future version of a price structure or pricelist field that becomes active automatically at a defined timestamp.

Tenant​

An isolated Quantaprice environment with its own data, API keys, users, and configuration. Each tenant operates independently, ensuring data separation between different organisations or projects. Tenants are provisioned through the Account Portal and accessed via tenant-specific API endpoints.

Historical Version​

A previous version of a price structure stored with a timestamp, allowing "as of" price queries.

As-of Query​

A query that evaluates prices as they were at a specific moment in the past.

Coverage​

A mechanism used during multi-pricelist queries to select the pricelists that best cover a set of SKUs.

Replica​

A read-only node that receives updates from the master node and serves price queries.

Deterministic​

A behaviour that produces the same output for the same inputs every time, regardless of where it runs.

If you encounter any unfamiliar terms while reading the documentation, check this page for clarification.