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YES

As of 13 August 2026, AI can create a wholesale price list.

Most people should hand this to a purpose-built tool.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA spreadsheet with built-in AI analysis and live data connections is an alternative, but no price for that alternative is provided here.

If this goes wrong: you publish an incorrect price or margin and accept orders on terms that lose money.

What to actually do

  1. Use a tool built for this

    The route this page recommends

  2. Do it yourself

    Second choice

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your current product, cost and sales records, then gather the latest product names, SKUs, sizes, unit costs, recommended retail prices, case quantities and stock information.
    2. Write down the commercial rules that apply, including VAT treatment, currency, minimum order quantities, volume discounts, payment terms, delivery charges, lead times and the period for which prices are valid.
    3. Paste those records and rules into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot and adding your product table under the product data heading.
    4. Ask the chatbot to return the customer-facing table, internal checking table, missing information and confirmation notes specified in the prompt.
    5. Compare every product name, SKU, cost, price, quantity, discount, VAT label and term in the draft against your current records, and recalculate the margins in a spreadsheet.
    6. Correct the flagged gaps and contradictions, then ask the chatbot to regenerate the list using only the corrected information.
    7. Send the final draft to a colleague who handles orders or accounts to check that customers will understand the terms before you publish or email it.

    Prompt

    Create a wholesale price list from the business information below. Use only the figures and facts I provide. Do not invent products, costs, prices, discounts, VAT treatment, delivery terms, payment terms, stock levels or lead times. If information is missing or contradictory, flag it in a separate issues section instead of guessing.
    
    Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
    Currency: GBP
    VAT treatment: [VAT REGISTERED, NOT VAT REGISTERED, OR CONFIRM]
    Price validity: [DATE OR PERIOD]
    Customer type: [WHOLESALE CUSTOMER DESCRIPTION]
    Payment terms: [TERMS]
    Delivery terms and charges: [TERMS]
    Order minimum: [ORDER MINIMUM]
    
    Product data:
    [PASTE YOUR PRODUCT TABLE OR NOTES HERE]
    
    For each product, include where available: product name, SKU, variant or size, unit cost, recommended wholesale price, recommended retail price, margin, case quantity, minimum order quantity, volume discount, lead time and stock status. Calculate margins only where the required figures are supplied, show the formula used, and label whether prices include or exclude VAT according to the supplied VAT treatment. Preserve all supplied product names and SKUs exactly.
    
    Return:
    1. A clean customer-facing wholesale price list in a table.
    2. An internal checking table showing each calculation and any supplied assumptions.
    3. A list of missing or contradictory information.
    4. Five concise notes on terms that I should confirm before sending it to customers.
    Do not decide what prices my business should charge. Where a price is absent, leave it blank and explain what is missing.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know the lowest price your business can accept without complete and current cost information.
  • AI cannot decide whether a proposed margin is suitable for your market, brand position or customer relationships.
  • AI cannot detect a cost, stock position or delivery charge that was omitted from the supplied records.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for accepting an order at an incorrect price or on an unsuitable term.
  • AI can format a professional-looking list that hides an unresolved commercial assumption unless you check the source data.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, stakes of error and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

FAQ

Can ChatGPT make a wholesale price list?
Yes. It can turn your product data, costs, prices and trading terms into a formatted list, calculate supplied margins and flag missing information. Check every figure and term against your current records before sending it to customers.
Can AI calculate wholesale prices for me?
It can calculate prices or margins from formulas you specify and figures you provide. It cannot decide what your business should charge without your costs, market knowledge and commercial judgement.
Can AI make a wholesale price list in Excel?
Yes, it can produce a table that you can paste into a spreadsheet, and spreadsheet tools can help analyse the data. You still need to check the formulas, VAT treatment, rounding and customer terms in the resulting file.
What information does AI need to create a wholesale price list?
Give it product names, SKUs, sizes, costs, wholesale and retail prices, case quantities, minimum order quantities, discounts and stock or lead-time information. Also provide VAT treatment, payment terms, delivery charges and the period for which the prices apply.

Nearby answers

Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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