In my time working across industries at Accenture, Innoware and BlackCurve, I have come across many powerful spreadsheets running business critical processes. Whether customers are using Microsoft Excel, Open Office or Google Sheets to name a few, these tools used correctly can be very powerful. But they do have their limitations...

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BlackCurve helps businesses fine tune their pricing

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The Benefits of
Price List Management SoHware

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Typical Business Case
In principle the above-­‐menKoned process works. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. But what if I
said to you, that this process of managing prices is holding your business back?
Customers find it hard to opKmise their
pricing using Excel
Core business systems offer basic
funcKonality
Core Business
System (ERP)
Customer
RelaKonship
System (CRM)
Offline
Spread sheet
Based Tool
Download Product Data
Download Customer Data
Upload
Revised
Master File
Sales Staff NoKfied

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No need to spend days and weeks on the pricing administraKon side of things.
Make changes to your benchmark pricing, pricing rules, promoKonal pricing,
customer pricing, excepKon pricing in minutes with our easy to use workflows.
The Benefits of Pricing SoHware: Real-­‐Time Pricing

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The Benefits of Pricing SoHware: Assess the Impact
AnKcipate the business impact of your pricing changes with our visual financial
summary. Increasing prices may sound great, but what if this has a detrimental
impact on sales? Vice versa, if I decrease prices, how many more to I need to sell
to make up the shor[all?

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The Benefits of Pricing SoHware: Managing Pricing Tests
The key is to opKmise your pricing decisions, and get to a point where you can be
sure you are achieving the highest price possible whilst sKll supporKng revenue
and profitability growth. Because you have your sales history at your fingerKps,
you can easily idenKfy the areas of margin leakage within BlackCurve, and
complete pricing tests to find that pricing sweet spot. BlackCurve will even flag
up and rank the areas of greatest opportunity.

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The Benefits of Pricing SoHware: Manage Rule Conflicts
Many of our customers previously struggled with ensuring there were no rule
conflicts for example from any promoKonal acKviKes that were running.
BlackCurve takes away the stress, and automaKcally idenKfies conflicts that
require resolving.

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The Benefits of Pricing SoHware: Full Audit History
Excel is oHen just a snapshot of what is happening now in your pricing world.
BlackCurve logs all the changes behind the scenes, giving you the power to
interrogate what has happened previously, and keep a record as to the raKonale
of individual pricing changes.

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The Benefits of Pricing Tools: Advanced Pricing Rules
Excel is great, but it oHen struggles when it comes to advanced pricing methods.
If you’re looking to take advantage of applying different pricing strategies across
mulKple product, customer, and market segments, then an online pricing soluKon
is a must. Simply by moving away from a cost plus approach, you’re already on the
journey to value based selling, which staKsKcally is proven to support business
growth.

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The Benefits of Pricing SoHware: Flexible Commercial Terms
We know your business is constantly evolving in an effort to remain compeKKve,
and that cash flow is important to you. That is why the best price list management
systems are available on a subscripKon (SaaS: SoHware-­‐as-­‐a-­‐Service) model
where you can sign-­‐up for our standard rolling term of 12 months, and pay either
on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis.

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PRICE MANAGEMENT AND CONFIGURE PRICE QUOTE (CPQ)
SOFTWARE
Perfect for businesses who are over reliant on spread sheets to manage their pricing.
Perfect for companies wishing to reap the rewards from more advanced pricing
strategies to grow their profitability. Perfect for organisaKons seeking to opKmise
their prices.
Meet BlackCurve
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PRICE MANAGEMENT &
OPTIMISATION
An easy to use soluKon to
implement and fine tune
your pricing.
CONFIGURE PRICE QUOTE
(CPQ)
A quoKng system for
complex products, pricing or
channels.

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