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The Process of Implementing Script-Based Pricing Factors

To implement a script-based pricing factor:

1. Defining User Properties for the Script. Before you create a script that will be used as a business service, you must define user properties to support attributes and customizable products, which the script will reference.
2. Planning and Writing the Script. As mentioned earlier, this chapter does not discuss how to write scripts. However, the section below gives you some necessary details about how scripts interact with the pricing engine.
3. Creating the Script-Based Pricing Factor. Use the Pricing Administration screen to define the pricing factor and associate it with the script.
4. Testing the script-base pricing factor. Testing and validation tools are discussed in the section about Troubleshooting and Debugging the Script and in Testing and Validating Pricing Models.

NOTE:  Pricing factors for component-based products use the same general procedures as pricing factors for other products. However they involve additional constraints. You should not work with them until you have read About Pricing Models for Component-Based Products.