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Assigning Pricing Levels to Articles

Pricing levels allow you to set different prices for individual articles depending on the sales situation – in Germany also different tax rates. While you define pricing levels globally in the settings, at the article level you configure which prices apply for the article in the various pricing levels.

Activate Pricing Levels for an Article

To assign one or more pricing levels to an article:

  1. Open bessa Manager

  2. Navigate to Articles in the main menu

  3. Select the desired article from the list

  4. Switch to the Pricing Levels tab

  5. Click + Add pricing level

  6. Choose the desired pricing level from the dropdown

  7. Enter the price for this pricing level

  8. Germany only: choose a deviating tax rate for this pricing level if needed

  9. Click Save

You can assign multiple pricing levels to an article by repeating the procedure.

Active pricing level of an article

Set Price and Tax Rate

For each assigned pricing level you can specify individually:

  • Price: The specific sales price for this pricing level

  • Tax rate: The applicable tax rate – deviating from the article group's tax rate only in Germany

The price overrides the article's base price for the respective pricing level.

Austria (and all countries except Germany): The tax rate of a pricing level always matches the tax rate of the article group and cannot be changed. All articles in an article group have the same tax rate.

Germany: For individual articles, a different tax rate may apply depending on the consumption type – since 1 January 2026 only in exceptional cases, see the overview under Consumption types. That is why the tax rate of each pricing level – but not that of the base price – can be chosen independently of the article group.

Use the Default Price

If a pricing level is enabled in the global settings but no specific price configuration is stored for a particular article, the article's default price is used automatically.

Example:

  • Article "Cappuccino" has a default price of €3.50

  • The "Happy Hour" pricing level is enabled system-wide

  • No Happy Hour pricing level has been configured for "Cappuccino"

  • Result: During Happy Hour, the cappuccino still costs €3.50

This way you can use pricing levels selectively for specific articles without having to adjust each article individually.

Assigning Pricing Levels by Import

For many articles at once, import the price and tax rate of a pricing level with a CSV file: export the pricing level, adjust the file and import it into the same pricing level with Update. The base price stays unchanged.

The import only accepts a tax rate in a pricing level that differs from the article group's tax rate in Germany. In Austria, all articles in an article group have the same tax rate.

The procedure and rules are described in Importing and Exporting Articles.

Remove a Pricing Level from an Article

To remove an assigned pricing level:

  1. Open the article on the Pricing Levels tab

  2. Click the trash icon at the end of the row of the pricing level to remove

  3. Confirm the deletion

  4. Click Save