we use dropship/special order items. normally PO gets generated with item rate = default purchase price, per agreement with vendor. but now vendor doesn't want to use static price. vendor wants item rate = some % of the sales price. how would y'all approach this? i'm not allowed to yell at vendor.

Seems like you can script this. If the vendor is the one you need to do a % on, then you can spin through the lines, get the item rate and calculate the % and set the custom item rate. You can store the % on the vendor so you can update it and read it as needed.

luckily the % is static that can even be hardcoded

Yeah but that's kind of the "famous last words" type scenario. It would be a "better" design to not hardcode it as it will inevitably be updated at some point. If you have to hardcode it, it still works, but would require a code change if/when it updates.

yeah you're right, guess it's up to how dangerous i wanna live. (i'm the only admin.) in our particular case another change would require a lot of big yapping between the merchant/exec side which is unlikely but not impossible

I gotcha. Hardcode works then.

I’d just add a field on the vendor record to store the % markup that way if you need to change it later or have another vendor who wants to do this you can just update/add then use that logic in your script where if vendor has a value in that field THEN update otherwise use native defaulting logic. Makes it scalable now vs reworking later

ive asked the merchant side to confirm if this is a weird unique case type thing (very very likely) so i'll work off what they say