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title: "Conditional Price Lists"
slug: "conditional-price-lists"
description: "Unlock powerful conditional price lists in Timestone Software's Internet Ordering System to enhance your pricing strategy and boost sales effectively."
updated: 2026-07-07T20:18:11Z
published: 2026-07-07T20:18:11Z
canonical: "help.timestone.com.au/conditional-price-lists"
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# Conditional Price Lists

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## Overview

A very powerful feature of the Timestone Software Internet Ordering System, is the ability to create conditional price lists where the prices of Packages in an Offer are reduced depending on conditions the user has defined.

## Use cases

Below is a list of some uses of conditional price lists. Each case is a real example as used by Timestone Software customers. It is by no means exhaustive.

| Example | Description | Condition(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2nd Package at half price | Add a certain package or packages to the cart and other packages are reduced by 50% | Package>Package price>against most expensive cart items .. or Package>Package price>against most expensive cart items for shoot/identity |
| 3rd child free | When a parent orders for two children in the same order, the third child can order the same (or lesser value package) for free. | Package>Package Value>at least by total for n shoot/identities .. or Package>Package Value>at least by most expensive for n shoot/identities .. or Package>Package Count>at least by n shoot/identities |
| Discount at a certain cart value | When the value of the cart reaches a certain amount, the packages are discounted. | Session>Cart>Value of cart |
| Digital package free | The digital package becomes free once the ‘Premium’ package has been added to the cart. | Session>Cart>items in cart where package code |
| Promotional prices | At a certain date, such as before Xmas, Black Friday etc., packages are reduced in price and then reset afterwards. | Other>When>from/to date |

## How it works

Essentially, the process requires two steps.

1. Create the condition in the IOS control panel
2. Create an additional price list in tsAdmin and set the condition code

Online, once the condition becomes true, the conditional price list will be invoked.

> [!WARNING]
> Warning
> 
> The package prices in additional price lists must be lower or of equal value to the base price. They cannot be used to increase the base price of a package.

![Adding a conditional price list using the condition 3rdFree](https://cdn.document360.io/4c6b2b86-f0ee-419b-9aca-71ba574125e1/Images/Documentation/ConditionalPriceLists1.png)

Figure 1: Adding a conditional price list using the condition **3rdFree**

Packages are defined in an Offer and comprise one or more Products.

Packages are the basis of all ordering methods. When customers place an order, when they buy something, they are ordering a package even if that package only contains a single product.

An Offer is composed of one or more Packages.

It is useful to think of an offer as an order sheet from which customers choose what they wish to order. "Here are the packages I offer you".

tsAdmin also referred to as Timestone Administrator is a utility that allows the user to create working environments for the software.

## Related

- [Timestone Administrator](/timestone-adminsitrator.md)