Default Item Discount Calculator

The ItemDiscountCalculator component is a preconfigured instance of the class atg.commerce.pricing.ItemDiscountCalculator. It is the default discount calculator for the following types of promotion:

Item Discount -- Percent Off
Item Discount -- Amount Off
Item Discount -- Fixed Price

The following sample shows the contents of the ItemDiscountCalculator.properties file:

# The ItemPricingCalculator which calculates a discount
#
$class=atg.commerce.pricing.ItemDiscountCalculator
pricingModelProperties=/atg/commerce/pricing/PricingModelProperties
qualifierService=/atg/commerce/pricing/QualifierService
# negativeAmountException=

The following table describes the properties of the ItemDiscountCalculator component.

Property	Description
`pricingModelProperties`	Specifies a bean that hosts the names of all of the properties of a pricing model repository item.
`qualifierService`	Specifies a Qualifier that performs the actual evaluation of a `pmdlRule` of the `PricingModel` against the running environment.
`negativeAmountException`	ATG Commerce never discounts the price of an item to less than zero. This property determines what happens when a discount would cause the amount of an item to be negative. `True`: Throw an exception when a discount causes an amount to be negative. `False`: (default) Log a warning message and set the amount to 0.0 when a discount causes an amount to be negative.

Property

Description

pricingModelProperties

Specifies a bean that hosts the names of all of the properties of a pricing model repository item.

qualifierService

Specifies a Qualifier that performs the actual evaluation of a pmdlRule of the PricingModel against the running environment.

negativeAmountException

ATG Commerce never discounts the price of an item to less than zero. This property determines what happens when a discount would cause the amount of an item to be negative.

True: Throw an exception when a discount causes an amount to be negative.

False: (default) Log a warning message and set the amount to 0.0 when a discount causes an amount to be negative.

You can view and modify this component in the ATG Control Center. Its location is /atg/commerce/pricing/calculators/ItemDiscountCalculator.

For more information, refer to the description of the ItemDiscountCalculator class.

ATG Commerce Programming Guide

Default Item Discount Calculator