Alongside the many operational and workflow improvements included in this release, we're also introducing enhancements that help businesses maintain greater control over pricing and profitability.
Product Markup Lock is designed for businesses that manage products by margin rather than fixed retail price. By protecting your desired markup and automatically adjusting retail prices as costs change, Product Markup Lock helps ensure your pricing strategy stays aligned with your business goals and isn't unintentionally altered by automated pricing processes.
Keep reading to find out more.
For some products, the retail price is the key pricing decision. For others, maintaining a consistent margin is what matters most.
The new Product Markup Lock feature gives businesses greater control over margin-managed products by protecting the desired markup and automatically adjusting retail prices as costs change. This helps ensure that supplier cost increases, EPG updates and other automated pricing processes don't unintentionally alter the margins you've deliberately set.
| ➡️ Protect your desired markup from automatic pricing updates | ➡️ Maintain consistent margins across selected product ranges | ➡️ Integrates across receipting, EPG updates, price queues and other pricing workflows |
| ➡️ Automatically recalculate retail pricing when costs change | ➡️ Prevent supplier cost updates from quietly reducing profitability | ➡️ Apply markup-driven pricing where margin protection is the priority |
Product Markup Lock is being introduced in our November 2026 Software Release and it brings a new pricing option for businesses that manage products by margin rather than fixed retail price. By making the desired markup the master value, retail pricing automatically follows cost movements while your intended margin remains protected.
You'll find the Product Markup Lock lesson in the Inventory Learning Pathway on your symlearning dashboard.