Salesforce Product Price “More Decimals on Price” Feature: Overview and Considerations

This article answers what to consider before Salesforce Support enables the 'More Decimals on Price' feature, which lets Product Price fields use up to 8 decimal places.

How Prices Display With More Decimals

Turning the feature on opens up the Product Price field so it can be edited for up to 8 decimals to the right of the decimal point. The display always shows at least the currency-length number of digits, and up to 8 depending on how many digits the value needs.

For example, in USD, the values below display in the following manner:

• $0.00045 displays as $0.00045
• $0.12345678 displays as $0.12345678
• $10 displays as $10.00
• $10.02 displays as $10.02
• $10.12345 displays as $10.12345

Price Formats Are No Longer Enforced

Price formats are no longer enforced or defaulted and can therefore vary:

• Within an organization. For example, you sell some products or services at prices like $1,500.00 and others at $0.00045.
• For the same product between various list and sales prices. For example, if the list price for a product is $0.00045, nothing stops a user from applying a sales price of $1.45, $145.00 or $0.00000045 on an opportunity line item.

Report Alignment

In reports, price fields are right aligned and may not line up vertically at the decimal point if formats vary.

Turning the Feature Off

The feature can be turned off again for your org on request. In that case, prices are rounded back down to the currency-length number of digits. For example, if you had a price of $0.12345 for a product, it is rounded back to $0.12 if the feature is disabled.

Multi-Currency Organizations

For organizations with Multi-Currency, the 'More Decimals on Price' feature only displays the specified number of decimals if the selected currency on the record is the same as the corporate currency. Otherwise, it displays 6 decimals by default. For example, if USD is the corporate currency, EUR 10.123 displays as EUR 10.123000.

Additional Notes

• Once 'More Decimals on Price' is enabled, administrators or users still need to edit any existing prices to show additional decimal places. This can be done by a mass update through the API or manually. Also, under Customize > Opportunities > Opportunity Products > Fields, the decimal place value still displays as 2, for example (16,2). See the article "Change the Amount of Decimal Points for a Standard Field" in Additional Resources.
• The standard field 'Total Price' in the Product object is not affected or changed when the feature is enabled. It still follows the 2 decimal places configured in the Product object.
• In Lightning Experience, the decimal values on List Price revert to 2 decimal places when you modify any other field or the focus is not on List Price. The desired decimal values display when the focus is on the List Price field. This behavior is not observed in Classic.