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Family pricing allows the summing of a variable in **all** line items of the same family.  Family pricing in Control is  a mechanism that allows you to link pricing between different line items.  This is primarily used for linking discounts between similar products (in the same //family// of products) though it is not limited to discounting.



Note: Recursive calculations will generate errors, so avoid summing a field that is already summed!



==Common Uses for Pricing Families==



Some common uses for pricing families we have observed:
  * Applying a discount based on the total volume of digital printing across multiple line items (rather than each line item applying a discount only on its individual area).
  * Applying a discount for the number of similar trophies ordered (and not just of one exact type)
  * Applying a discount for the number of banners ordered (and not just of one exact type)
  * Summing up expected freight for an order.



==Setting a Pricing Family==



Every product can be in exactly one pricing family.  You can create as many pricing families as you want to group.  To assign a product to a particular pricing family, edit the product and select the pricing family on the first tab.  You can easily create new pricing families from the "Pricing Families" section of pricing setup.



==Using Family Variable Values==



==Using Total Variable Values==



==See Also==
  * [[cfl_reference]]
  * [[include_pagepage_componentbacklinks]]