Bookshelf v7.5: Pricing Manager Business Service Methods

The Pricing Manager business service is based on the class CSSBCBase.

This section describes the following:

Pricing Manager Methods external to the application (Table 53)

Pricing Manager Methods known to Tools (Table 54)

Parameters for CalculatePriceExternal Method (Table 55)

Table 53. Pricing Manager Methods External to the Application
Method Name	External / Internal	Purpose	Input Arguments	Output Arguments
CalculatePrice	Internal	Used for calling Siebel ePricer from other business components.	None	None
CalculatePriceAll	Internal	CalculatePrice for all quote Item discount and calculate aggregate price for the whole quote.	None	None

Table 54. Pricing Manager Methods Known to Tools
Method Name	External / Internal	Purpose	Input Arguments	Output Arguments
CalculateFinalDiscountExternal	External	Calculates aggregate pricing for external application user. A multiple item record must be passed as the argument. Assumes the CalculatePrice functions was called for each individual line.	Price list Id, current total (current total item price), Pricer VBC BO Name (current business component for pricing operations), list total (total list price of all items).	Pricing Comments, Final Discount Price, Pricing Comments and Discount Amount on the children Property set.
CalculatePrice	Internal	Used for calling Siebel ePricer from other business components.
CalculatePrice- External	External	Single Item repricing for external users.	See Table 55.
GetFinalDiscount	Obsolete - will be removed	Obsolete
GetProductListPrice	External/ Internal	Obsolete
Reload Cache	External/ Internal	For performance, data is cached in memory, this helps indicate to the Object Manager that the database has changed. It tells the Object Manager to re-read factors from the database.	None	None
SetPriceList	External/ Internal	To set the price list at the profile attribute level. This is currently used in eSales to override with the Price list id set by the session.	No input because this is set based on the global profile attributes in eSales.	No output arguments as described for input arguments.
Start	Internal	Hidden - not for use by external users.	None	None

Table 55. Parameters for CalculatePriceExternal Method
Name	Optional	Type	Explanation
Currency Code	N	Output	The currency code for the price.
Current Discount	N	Output	Current volume discount.
Current Discount Id	N	Output	Current volume discount Id.
Current Price	N	Output	The final price.
List Price	N	Output	Start price.
Next Discount	N	Output	Next available item for volume discount.
Next Discount Id	N	Output
Original List Price	Y	Input
Price List Id	N	Input
Pricing Comments	N	Output
Product Id	N	Input
Quantity	N	Input
Service Price Percentage	N	Output	Indicates the percentage used to determine the price of the Service Product, where the Service Price is set to a percentage of the product price.
Upsell Message	N	Output	The volume discount upsell message.
Volume Discount Id	N	Output	Volume discount ID (a copy of the ID in Quote).