Price Recalculation
Price recalculation reworks every affected product's price in bulk when a source value such as the gold rate or a making charge changes.
Price recalculation is the bulk action that runs when a shared input moves. Update the 22K rate, change a diamond master rate or revise a making charge rule, and recalculation sweeps through every product built on that input and produces its new price. Crucially, it lets a team review the fresh figures before they go live rather than trusting a silent overwrite.
What triggers a recalculation
Any value shared across many products can set off a recalculation. The most frequent is the daily gold rate, which touches almost every gold piece at once. A revised diamond master rate reprices every design that references that shape, size, colour and clarity. A change to a making charge rule or a wastage percentage flows through the pieces that use it.
Because these inputs sit upstream of thousands of prices, editing products one by one is not realistic. Recalculation treats the change as the source of truth and re-derives every downstream price from it in a single run.
Review before publish
The value of recalculation is not just speed, it is the checkpoint. A good workflow computes the new prices into a preview, shows the before and after, and waits for a person to approve. That guard catches a fat fingered rate, a decimal error or a rule that behaved unexpectedly before any customer sees a wrong number.
Consider a rate entered as 62,000 instead of 6,200 per gram. Without a review step every gold price in the catalogue would inflate tenfold and the storefront would go out immediately. A preview surfaces the absurd figures so the team can reject the run and fix the input.
Keeping large catalogues consistent
Recalculation is what makes live pricing trustworthy at scale. It guarantees that after a rate change, every affected piece reflects the same current inputs, with no stragglers left on yesterday's number. The storefront, the admin panel and the invoicing all move together, so a 4,000 SKU catalogue stays internally consistent.
- One source change reprices all affected products in a single run.
- Triggers include the gold rate, diamond master rates and charge rules.
- A review step lets the team approve new prices before publishing.
- It keeps large catalogues consistent with no products left stale.
Price Recalculation, in short.
Does recalculation publish new prices automatically?
It does not have to. The recommended flow computes the new prices into a preview and waits for approval, so a mistyped rate can be caught and rejected before customers see it.
How is recalculation different from live pricing?
Live pricing is the formula each product uses. Recalculation is the bulk operation that re-runs those formulas across the whole catalogue when a shared input changes.
Which changes should trigger a recalculation?
Any input shared by many products: the gold rate, diamond master rates, making charge rules, wastage percentages or tax settings. Anything upstream of many prices is a recalculation trigger.
Related terms
See price recalculation inside a real jewellery system.
JewelleryOS keeps product, pricing, stones and orders in one connected place, built for how jewellery businesses actually work.