Answers.Body: <p>Almost certainly no, but it might depend on the report you're looking at. Specifically, financial transaction data is stored with the full amounts, not just a reference to the price set, so you can't change a contribution by changing the priceset it came from.</p>
  
  <p>In other words, it's safe to update a priceset from one year to the next for an annual event, for example.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Does that also mean it's safe to change to a different price set on a live contribution page without affecting existing contributions?  Or even remove the price set and use the Fixed Amounts section?
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Answers.Text: Yes, probably. I wouldn't delete a price set, that can cause messes, but you can stop using a price set on a contribution page and use the fixed amounts section instead. The 'probably' is in case you've got some other customization or extension that is counting on a particular configuration.
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Body: <p>If a price set is changed in terms of prices etc will that affect reports for past events that used that same price set?</p>
  
  <p>If it did do that we would have a huge list of price sets just to maintain reporting! </p>
  
  <p>Cheers! </p>
  
Tags: <civievent><civireport><reports><price-sets>
Title: Does changing a price set for an event retroactively change reports?
ThreadText: # Does changing a price set for an event retroactively change reports?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-26)
  
  If a price set is changed in terms of prices etc will that affect reports for past events that used that same price set?
  
  If it did do that we would have a huge list of price sets just to maintain reporting!
  
  Cheers!
  
  **Tags:** civievent, civireport, reports, price-sets
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-10-31. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Almost certainly no, but it might depend on the report you're looking at. Specifically, financial transaction data is stored with the full amounts, not just a reference to the price set, so you can't change a contribution by changing the priceset it came from.
  
  In other words, it's safe to update a priceset from one year to the next for an annual event, for example.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Does that also mean it's safe to change to a different price set on a live contribution page without affecting existing contributions?  Or even remove the price set and use the Fixed Amounts section?  
  > **username_1**: Yes, probably. I wouldn't delete a price set, that can cause messes, but you can stop using a price set on a contribution page and use the fixed amounts section instead. The 'probably' is in case you've got some other customization or extension that is counting on a particular configuration.  
  
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