Explain Multi Dimensional Quoting (Price Dimension) in Salesforce CPQ

Hi Anjali,

You can show a product in the quote line editor as a single quote line with multiple segments. Each segment represents a block of time (quarter, month, year, or custom) and has a quantity and discounts independent of the other segments. This feature is useful if you’re selling subscription products and services, because you don’t have to add multiple quote lines for each segment.

Add MDQ (multi-dimensional quoting) segments to a product by creating a price dimension in your product’s Price Dimensions related list. The price dimension’s type controls whether your segments appear by year, quarter, month, custom, or as a one-time segment. You can also control whether users can edit the cost, quantity, or discounts of segments, or whether the segments inherit editability of these fields from their parent product record.

After you create a dimension, Salesforce CPQ calculates the number of segments by considering the length of your quote’s term. For example, a product with a monthly price dimension and a two-year term might have 24 segments.

To add a one-time charge, such as an installation fee, create a price dimension with a Type value of One-Time and set its unit price to a value of your choosing. The unit price overrides the product’s Price Book value. The one-time fee appears to the left of your segmented values in the line editor.