Dimensions

Subscription products are sold over a term, and the price often isn’t flat across that term — year two might carry an uplift, the customer might ramp quantity year over year, and a volume discount might apply to the whole commitment or to each year on its own. Dimensions are how you describe that: they slice the term into priced segments, the foundation of MDQ (multi-dimensional quoting).

You manage them in Product Manager: open a Product record, go to the Pricing tab, and select Dimensions.

Adding a dimension

On a subscription product, Add Dimension opens the editor. Existing dimensions show as cards (with their Type, uplift, renewal, and editability at a glance) that you can edit or delete. The first field is always the Type:

  • Year, Month, Quarter — time dimensions that auto-activate: the term is divided into segments of that unit (a Year dimension over a 3-year term yields three yearly segments), each priced in turn.
  • Custom — uses the same per-segment fields as the time dimensions, but its segments are authored manually rather than auto-generated from the term, and it does not activate (see the callout below).
  • One-Time — a single, non-recurring charge that doesn’t segment the term.

The rest of the editor changes based on the type.

The Add Price Dimension dialog for a time dimension — Type, Uplift Type, Uplift %, Uplift Editable, Renewal Behavior, Discount Aggregation, Quantity Editable, and Non-Discountable
The dimension editor (a Year dimension): uplift, renewal behavior, discount aggregation, and the editability flags that govern what a rep can change per segment.
The Dimensions tab on a subscription product showing a configured dimension card with its Type, uplift, renewal, and editability
The Dimensions tab — configured dimensions show as cards (Type, uplift, renewal, editability) you can edit or delete.

Time dimensions (Year / Month / Quarter / Custom)

A time dimension carries:

  • Uplift Type — how the price grows across segments:
    • Percent — each segment is that percentage more than the previous one (it compounds down the ramp).
    • Amount — each segment adds that flat amount over the base price (linear). The amount is authored in the dimension’s currency and is never auto-converted.
  • Uplift % / Uplift Amount — the uplift value (the label follows the Uplift Type).
  • Uplift Editable — when on, a rep can change the uplift on the line at quote time; otherwise it’s fixed.
  • Renewal Behavior — what happens when the subscription renews:
    • Carry Forward — the renewal continues from where the ramp left off.
    • Re-generate — the ramp is rebuilt fresh on the renewal.
  • Discount Aggregation — how segment quantities pick a Volume Discount tier:
    • Across Segments (default) — every segment’s quantity sums to one total that picks one tier for the whole line. A ramp is treated as a single commitment.
    • Per-Segment — each segment’s own quantity picks its own tier.
  • Quantity Editable — whether the rep can edit the per-segment quantity.
  • Non-Discountable — when on, the dimension’s price is excluded from discounting.

One-Time dimensions

A One-Time dimension is just a Unit Price — a single non-recurring charge (setup fee, one-off services). It has no uplift, renewal behavior, or discount aggregation; the Quantity Editable and Non-Discountable flags still apply.

Multi-currency

In a multi-currency org the editor adds a Currency picker, and each currency has its own dimension. At quote time the resolver picks the dimension row whose currency matches the line. (Single-currency orgs don’t see the picker.)

How dimensions show up at quote time

When a rep adds a dimensioned subscription product, the configurator renders the line as a segment grid — one column per segment (Year 1, Year 2, …), each with its own Start/End, Quantity, List price, Uplift, Unit Price, discount, and Total. The uplift you set walks the unit price down the ramp; the editability flags decide which cells the rep can touch; and Discount Aggregation decides whether one volume tier covers the whole ramp or each segment is tiered on its own. See Configurator — Building a Quote for the rep-facing walkthrough and Pricing Methods — MDQ for how each segment’s price is computed.

  • Segment Templates — reusable ramp shapes (per-segment quantity / uplift / discount) matched to a product by dimension type and segment count, so a rep can apply a consistent ramp in one click.
  • Discount Schedules — the Volume Discount tiers that Discount Aggregation selects from.
  • Pricing Methods — how MDQ segment unit prices, uplift, and discounts actually compute.
  • Configuration Attributes — attributes can be dimensionally variable (a value per segment).