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I am working on a POS and Inventory Management Web Application and am facing an issue in updating the price list.

When there is a change in the price of a product. I want to update the price in the database but this price change must not affect the old stock of the same product already in the store am looking for a logic to handle this.

How can i differentiate the old stock and the new stock with the updated price.

Please help me in solving this issue.

Thanks In Advance.

What I have tried:

versioning for the product but it makes trouble while generating the sales reports and also it will be annoying if a price of a product changes frequently
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Updated 21-Dec-16 20:16pm

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Date time is the key here. Use the data time of price update and that of stock arrival.
Every product in your database will have a unique id or code, say product_id, every product should have only one id. As for keeping records of price change, you will need a table say price_change to keep min these 3 pieces of information:
product_id, datetime, price

Every price change should be inserted into this table as a new record.
If you do not want to have another id for every insertion, you can use the combination of the product_id + datetime to identify each price change and a particular batch of stock based on its arrival date time.
 
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