Pricing overview
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The following table presents the hierarchy of Commerce Engine pricing entities and components:
| Entity | Components | |
|---|---|---|
| Price Book Price Card | Snapshot | Tier Tag |
The following table describes general pricing terminology:
| Pricing Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Catalog | An organization of products and services to sell. The catalog is defined in groups of categories and products, and contains products and description data. |
| Price Book | A container for one or more Price Cards. Can be associated with one or more catalogs. |
| Price Card | An optional mechanism to define a Sell Price, which is normally a discounted price as compared to the List Price. Price Cards also make it possible to apply common pricing across multiple SellableItems without repeating the same pricing definition in each one. A Price Card can be a single application (for example, a reduced item price) or can contain multiple applications (for example, multiple promotions impacting a price at a particular time). |
| Snapshot | A calculated price that is defined to apply at a specified date/time (for example, at a snapshot in time). Snapshots are used to vary prices by date/time. |
| Tier | A categorization that can be used to present tier-based pricing, for example, by pricing by number of units bought, or by currency. |
| Tag | An indicator used to efficiently relate prices to particular SellableItems. By adding tags to a snapshot, you link a Price Card (at a particular date/time) to items that have the same tags applied. |
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