Considerations

A pricing rule is used to perform pricing adjustments to an order that will be applicable only if certain conditions are satisfied.

Overview of pricing rules
A pricing rule is used to perform pricing adjustments to an order that will be applicable only if certain conditions are satisfied. A pricing rule is characterized by conditions and effects. When a condition pertaining to a pricing rule is satisfied, the corresponding effect is applied to the price on the order. Pricing adjustments can be made at either the order level or the line level.
Assigning a pricing rule or coupon
After you create a pricing rule or a coupon, you must make it available to customers. You can assign the pricing rule or coupon to specific customers, or you can assign it based on customer attributes, seller assignments, or region assignments.
Defining conditions, adjustments, and limits on pricing rules and coupons
Each pricing rule has purchase conditions that must be met before it can take effect and price adjustments that are applied as a result. Some limits on coupons and discounts are often required, as well.
Pricing bundles
A bundle is a package containing both products and services. It comprises a bundle parent and one or more child lines. The child lines can be products, services, or other bundles.
Manual adjustments
The Pricing Service enables a customer sales representative to manually adjust the price of a line total or an order total during the creation or modification of an order. The adjustment may be a discount or an additional charge.
Non-instant discounts
Some discounts, such as mail-in rebates, store rewards, store cash, and store credit, are not applied to an order immediately. You can decide whether to exclude these non-instant discounts when evaluating order total thresholds for order total pricing rules and coupons.
Price locking
You can set a price lock on a line’s unit price. Price lock freezes the unit price, which in turn protects the unit price from being repriced when it passes through the Pricing Service. Locking of prices is used by the Applications Manager and price match scenarios. The Pricing Service does not determine the unit price again from the price list for such locked lines.
Shipping charge calculation
A shipping user exit is invoked during the getOrderPrice API call to get the shipping charge. Shipping charge calculation logic is externalized. The shipping user exit is invoked if implemented, even if the shipping charge is passed in the input. If the shipping user exit is not implemented, it uses the shipping charge provided by the caller of the API.
Price matching
A customer may discover that another retailer is selling the same items that the customer ordered, but at a lesser price. In such a situation, the user can investigate the customer's claims and price match the items, if necessary. After an order line is price matched, the order line's unit price for that item is locked.

Parent topic: Overview of pricing administrative tasks