Calculate Gold Pricing using Gold Calculator
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007We built Gold Calculator feature for the goldsmith and jewelers who need flexibility in the way they price their products. Having met jewelers for a number of years now, they share a similar requirement. Almost every jeweler that we have met has a different formula they are using to price their products. And so the case for Gold Calculator feature, which is included in Version 2 of Enterprise Jewelry Software.
The main benefit comes from giving the jeweler the extra edge to customize his unique price formula. Right pricing leads to a profitable business. This pricing formula is then applied to all the products he sells through EJS POS or Invoice modules.
How To Use ?

Let’s take the example of the following gold pricing formula,
( [ { ( FINE_GOLD_BASE x MANUFACT_LOSS } x MARK_UP ] + LABOUR_PRICE ) x UNIT_WEIGHT
You can very easily create a formula like that using the Gold Calculator by clicking on a couple of buttons. The left column buttons are common variables that a jeweler deals with on a daily basis. These variables are:
- Manufacturing loss
- Markup rate
- Labour Price
- Fine Gold Base
- Unit Weight
- Total Weight
- Discount %
The right column are the operators - plus (+), minus (-), divide (/), multiply (x), group ( ‘(’ and ‘)’ ). Use the bracket symbols to group the smaller components of the formula.
Coming back to our example, ( (FINE_GOLD_BASE x MANUFACT_LOSS) x MARK_UP ). Two sets of open / close brackets are used to group operations on individual formula units. The formula unit, FINE_GOLD_BASE x MANUFACT_LOSS is performed first, and its result is then multiplied to the value of MARK_UP.
This is one of the latest addition to EJS, do you think this is useful ?
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