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Fees & Discounts

Fees add to a listing's price; discounts subtract from it. Together they let you show a final price that reflects doc fees, prep charges, promotions, or markdowns - without hand-editing every listing's price.

Set the defaults for a whole inventory type at [Your Type] > Settings, and adjust them for a single listing on that listing's Pricing panel.

Fixed or percentage

Each fee or discount is either:

  • Fixed - a set dollar amount (e.g. a $199 documentation fee).
  • Percent - a percentage of the price (e.g. 5% off).

Defaults per type, overrides per listing

There are two levels:

  1. Type defaults - set the fees and discounts that should apply to a whole inventory type in [Your Type] > Settings. These apply to every listing of that type automatically.
  2. Per-listing overrides - on an individual listing's Pricing panel, adjust or override the defaults for just that listing.

This way you set common charges once, and only touch the exceptions.

The final price

DMS calculates a final price = base price, plus fees, minus discounts. That final price is what shoppers see and what feeds into shortcodes and elements:

  • [dms_final_price] - the calculated total.
  • [dms_fees_total] / [dms_discounts_total] - the combined fee and discount amounts.
  • [dms_listing_fee] / [dms_listing_discount] - a specific named fee or discount.

See Using Shortcodes for placement.

Price shows $0 or a fee is missing?

If a price shows $0, the listing has no base price set. If a specific fee or discount doesn't appear, its name/id may not exist on that listing.

Next: set the base price and per-listing overrides in Managing Listings, or configure type defaults in Settings.