Review a price change notice
A Price Change Detected notice means a line price is outside the vendor's recent approved history for the same SKU.
What triggers it
The vendor_price_drift check compares the current unit price with the vendor's most recent price for the same SKU. It runs only after Clerked has the minimum amount of SKU history configured for your company.
The check is Off by default. An administrator can set it to Off, Warn, or Review.
Review the change
- Select the Price Change chip in the Document notices region under the invoice title.
- Compare the current price, previous price, percentage variance, and prior invoice reference shown in the popover.
- Check the source invoice and any purchasing records your company uses.
- Correct the invoice line if the current value is wrong.
- Select Dismiss when the price is correct or after you have handled the difference.
What you should see
The notice popover identifies the affected line and can show the current price, previous price, variance, and prior invoice reference. After you select Dismiss, the notice closes.
Configure the check
Users with company:validation:manage can configure the check:
- Select Settings in the main sidebar.
- Select Configurations in the Settings sidebar.
- Select Validation checks.
- Find Vendor price drift.
- Set the check to Off, Warn, or Review.
- Enter Allowed price variance, which is the percentage change from the most recent price.
- Enter Minimum exposure, which is the absolute line-total exposure. Clerked uses the unit-price difference multiplied by quantity, or the unit-price difference when quantity is unavailable.
- Enter Minimum SKU history, which is the number of earlier observations required before the comparison runs.
- Select Save in the page header.
The new settings apply after the page saves them.
If something goes wrong
- If Vendor price drift is not listed, the company schema may not provide the fields the check needs.
- If no notice appears after you enable the check, the SKU may not have enough approved history yet.
- If the notice shows an unexpected exposure, check whether the invoice line includes a quantity because Clerked uses it in the exposure calculation when available.