What is an index?

Indexes are stored price and quantity values that are used throughout the platform.

Indexes are the building blocks of all of your prices and offers on Gasology. They are the components of a base price for the products a merchant will be selling on Gasology; they can also be added to your structures, and customer levels. An index is simply a stored value that can be used multiple times throughout the Gasology platform. Think of indexes as your library of price and order quantity building blocks.

Create as many indexes as you need to price your products. A single index can also be used repeatedly in multiple prices to make updating all of your product prices easy. Updating an index value will update all prices using the index.

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The following article outlines the different types of indexes you can use for pricing on Gasology.