REST APIs (Inbound)
Use the REST APIs inbound integration option if some of your business processes require near real-time updates to your pricing master data.
For example, you'd use this integration option if your business must update or add prices in near real time.
Key Features
- Create and maintain price lists for items, subscriptions, models, and coverages. Includes more actions on price list access sets, items, covered items, component items, rate plans, and flexfields.
- Create and maintain discount lists for items, subscriptions, models, and coverages. Includes more actions on discount list access sets, items, discount rules, matrixes, tiers, and flexfields.
- Create and maintain matrixes to apply specific results or rules dynamically based on attributes. Includes more actions on matrix dimensions and matrix rules to support rate tables and attribute-based pricing adjustments.
- Create and maintain the rules for pricing segments.
- Create and maintain pricing strategies that include additional actions on allowed override currencies, associated discount lists, associated segment price lists, and flexfields.
- Create and maintain pricing strategy assignments including additional actions on pricing matrixes to assign a strategy based on a set of attributes.
- Create and maintain tiers rules including more actions for tier lines and flexfields.
Best Practices
- Use for maintenance.
- Allows integration of data with external systems
- To improve performance, limit the operations to a smaller set of records at a time.
Constraints
- Subsidiary actions on child entities can't be taken in the absence of the header.
- Copy price list isn't supported.