Weird problem with price query

Question

Hi when i set the special price 'Price list item details by period' and then run a query to get the special price, some of the period prices are different from the query
The query i am using is
<i><b>SELECT T1.LineNum,T1.Price as 'Special Price', T1.ItemCode, T1.Discount
FROM SPP1 T1
WHERE T1.CardCode = '100250' and  T1.ItemCode = 'item' </b></i>
For example i made a special price for customer 100250, the price shown in SAP is 7.43 with 25%, but when using a query like above, it returned 8.23 with 25% discount.
Any idea on why is it like this? It only happen to some of the records, and also is it right to use the price stated there or should i manually calculate the price based on the pricelist and the discount?
Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Melvin,
The price gets influenced by various factors, including discounts, hierarchies and expansions, discount groups, volume discount, etc.
The best way I have found to get an item's price is to use the SboBob object in the DI API. Use it as follows:
        Dim oBob As SAPbobsCOM.SBObob
        Dim oRecord As SAPbobsCOM.Recordset
        oBob = oCompany.GetBusinessObject(SAPbobsCOM.BoObjectTypes.BoBridge)
        oRecord = oCompany.GetBusinessObject(SAPbobsCOM.BoObjectTypes.BoRecordset)
        oRecord = oBob.GetItemPrice("C1000", "A1000", 5, Date.Now)
        oRecord.MoveFirst()
        MessageBox.Show(oRecord.Fields.Item(0).Value)
The parameters for the GetItemPrice method is CardCode, ItemCode, Quantity, Date.
Hope it helps,
Adele