Price protection in ClaimDS
Price protection in ClaimDS is the stock-protection claim — recovering a manufacturer price drop on inventory you still hold, on cost or MRP.
If you're looking for "price protection" in ClaimDS, you're looking for the stock-protection claim. The two terms describe the same thing — recovering the value lost when a manufacturer cuts the price on inventory you're still holding — and in ClaimDS that's handled as one claim type.
The term and the feature
"Price protection" is the phrase many channels use; "stock protection" is what the claim is called in the product. They mean the same arrangement: when the price falls on stock you've already bought, you recover the drop on what you still hold, rather than absorbing it.
What it covers
The claim recovers the price drop on your eligible inventory — on cost, on MRP (passing through an agreed percentage), or on both. You evidence the inventory either by declaring it or against a snapshot. The full mechanics are in raise a stock-protection claim.
How it differs from a price adjustment
Price protection is about inventory you still hold when the price drops. That's different from a retroactive price adjustment, which corrects the price on business you've already invoiced, and from a special-pricing claim, which recovers the gap on a specially agreed selling price. Choosing the right one means the claim settles on the right basis.
A note on returned or rotated stock
Price protection covers a price drop on held stock — not the return, rotation, expiry or replacement of stock. ClaimDS doesn't have a dedicated claim type for those — see handling returns and stock rotation for how to capture them with the existing claim types.
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