Cloud pricing is managed separately from catalog content so pricing can easily be updated even if the catalog content is not. This enables you to provide updated pricing, price corrections, or promotions as and when required.
Cloud pricing is managed by creating a pricing datapack which consists of three types of information:
- Price Lists
- Price Values
- Price Rules
Price Lists
Price-list.csv contains the information about price lists. They are identified by a specific code and name and contain information about the currency and effective dates of the pricing datapack. This enables you to maintain historic pricing, provide promotional pricing during a specific time, or provide specific discounts to certain users.
NOTE: Price lists can be directly managed in Content Studio.
Price Values
Price-values.csv contains fixed price items, items priced per their configuration (options), items priced per package; these can all include discounts. Price values provide the total price value calculated by the price rule in the currency that is defined in the price list. Price values are the actual prices used during the calculation of pricing for products and options. Price values can be updated live on the platform, it is only recommended to make adjustments and not mass edits in this way.
Price Rules
Price-rules.csv provides the proper information for calculating pricing based on products and their options. It could be a fixed amount, a percentage or an amount based on a formula from the item attributes values. The price rules build the formula for calculating price. Price rules can be updated live on the platform, it is only recommended to make adjustments and not mass edits in this way.
These three files work together to calculate pricing for a catalog.
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