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Bundling Type Pricing Factors for Product Components

A bundling type pricing factor may refer to bundles of product components. For example, for customers buying personal computers, you might create a bundling type pricing factor saying that, if they buy both a CD drive and a floppy disk drive, they get a 10% discount on both drives.

Bundling type pricing factors for product components products work in the same general way as other bundling type pricing factors, but there are several added constraints:

• Bundling type pricing factors for products components must include only components of the product. Do not create a pricing factor that mixes components of one product line with other products. Siebel ePricer must process the pricing factor for the component based product first, to determine the price for that price list line item, before it can process pricing factors that contain price list line items.
• Siebel ePricer executes the bundling type pricing factor's price adjustments when a user selects a component that is a Buy product that completes the requirement of the pricing factor. If a Receive product is present in or is added to the component-based product, Siebel ePricer applies the Receive product price adjustment.
• If you are defining the required quantities for a component-based product component in a bundling factor, be aware of the component product constraints in the Products Designer list, especially the Max Cardinality limit. Do not define bundling factor rules that requires the user to buy more products than the cardinality limits; if the pricing rule exceeds cardinality, it will not fire.

NOTE:  If the same product appears multiple times as a component, then the different instances of the product may have different prices after all adjustments. In this case, the bundling factor adjustment uses as its target price the instance of the product with the highest net price. For example, if a specific memory chip appears multiple places within a customizable computer system product, the highest calculated price for that memory chip will be used as the target price for all bundling factor pricing adjustments on that chip.