Note: If your site uses price lists, you must configure the use of price lists as outlined in Defining the Default Price List later in this document.
The following section describes configuration that affects the pricing of scheduled orders when using price lists in combination with scheduled orders. This configuration affects the pricing of scheduled orders when:
Pricing a new scheduled order for submission
This occurs in ATG Commerce via the
ScheduledOrderServiceandScheduledOrderToolscomponents when scheduled orders are automatically created and submitted based on their pre-defined schedules.Pricing a scheduled order template for view in CSC
Scheduled order templates are priced whenever an agent selects one for viewing on the scheduled order view. This ensures that the agent always views the current day pricing when looking at a scheduled order template. The result of this pricing operation is not saved to the repository, and is only temporary for the view.
Pricing a new scheduled order instance when the “Submit Now” feature is used in CSC
The Submit Now feature is used by an agent to manually create and submit and order from a scheduled order template.
ScheduledOrderTools
This ATG Commerce component automatically generates and submits scheduled orders based on their pre-defined schedules and contains configuration specific to the pricing of the scheduled orders they have submitted.
The property useOrderPriceListsFirst controls how ScheduledOrderTools determines the correct price lists to use. Set by default to false, the price list assignment is determined by looking at the price lists assigned to the customer profile that owns the scheduled order. Because price list assignments are an optional feature in ATG Commerce, if price list assignments are not implemented, the price list will come from the PriceListManager default configuration of defaultPriceList and defaultSalesPricelist. For additional information on ATG Commerce price lists, refer to the UsingPriceLists section of the ATG Commerce Programming Guide.
If ScheduledOrderTools.isUseOrderPriceListsFirst is set to true, it will first attempt to get the price lists by extracting them from the template. Pricing information must be stored with the scheduled order template when it is created to be able to extract price lists from order templates. It may not be possible to extract both price lists from the template. If the items in the order are all on sale, the list price cannot be determined. Conversely, if no items are on sale, the sales price list cannot be determined. If the price list cannot be determined from the template, the price list assignment is obtained from the customer profile that owns the scheduled order. If price list assignments are not implemented, the price list will come from the PriceListManager default configuration of defaultPriceList and defaultSalesPricelist.
It is important to note that there are situations that may occur when using either of these methods:
When a site changes customer price list assignments based on store front selection, it is possible for an agent to set up a scheduled order based on the current assignments for a customer. If the customer switches store fronts, any new scheduled orders will be priced using the new assignments.
If the price list on a customer’s profile is updated, and CSC has been configured to obtain price lists from the order items first, the change will not be applied to any scheduled orders.
For information on customizing scheduled orders, refer to Customizing Scheduled Orders
