Considerations for pricing

This topic provides information about ways to improve performance during price searches and pricing requests.

Lowest price searches
When a customer returns an item and does not have a receipt, a CSR can perform a search for the lowest price for the item within a specified time period. The default for this time period is 60 days, but the CSR could specify any number of days as the search period when entering the transaction.
Applying only item-based rules during order creation
You can choose whether you want to run only item-based rules during order creation. Selecting this option can improve performance, because the addition of each item will not run order total, shipping, and surcharge rules for each line. Instead, the rules that do run are only item-level rules: item quantity, item combination, item-targeted manual rules and item-targeted coupons. When the order is finished and the total is requested, then all promotions can be run to calculate the entire order.
Caching price list headers and pricing rules
When items are being added to a cart, price list headers and pricing rules associated with the items are repeatedly fetched from a database. To increase performance, price list headers and pricing rules are cached by default into Java Virtual Memory (JVM) at server startup. During runtime, instead of querying the database, these rules are fetched from cache.

Parent topic: Performance

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