Overview
The Counterpoint Integrator supports two different methods for web store promotional pricing: Alternate Price fields, or Price Rules. Here we'll cover each option, explaining why you'd use them and how they work.
NOTE: Price Rules do not support the following:
- Mix or Match
- Buy 1 Get 1
- Quantity discounts
Alternate Price Field
With the Alternate Price Field method you select Price-1 through Price-3 as your regular web store price and Price-1 through Price-3 as your web store sales price. If the web store sale price is less than the web store regular price, then the Integrator will send a sale price to the web store.
The Alternate Price Field is configured on the Modern Retail Counterpoint Integrator by navigating to the CP Setup Price. Use the dropdown menu under "Please select Web Sale Price" to select the sales price field you wish to send to the website. Click Save.
Price Rules
This form of promotion pricing uses one of three Counterpoint Promotion rules to send sale prices to the web store. Price Rules allows you to set a sale price for an item (or group of items) during a designated date range.
The Price Rules option is configured on the Modern Retail Counterpoint Integrator by navigating to the CP Setup Price. Check the box next to "Use Price Rules" and Save.
Currently supported Price Rules are:
- Special Price
These are discounts or markups provided to your customers based on some condition of the sale: the amount ordered, what day of the week it is, etc. These are managed on a product-by-product basis - Promotional Price
These discounts are sale prices set for an item (or group of items) during a designated date range - Planned Promotions*
These discounts all you to set various items in a sale group and assign random prices to those items
The screenshot below shows where this setting is configured in Counterpoint. (Please note this screenshot is of the latest version of Counterpoint and may look different from your version. If you have questions about where to find this setting, please reach out to your Counterpoint dealer for assistance.)
*NOTE: In the Counterpoint Planned Promotion window, there is a button in the top right-hand side of the window labeled "Create Promo". For the Integrator to see the Planned Promo records, you must NOT use the "Create Promo" button. Doing so will remove the promo records from the Planned Promo window and the Integrator will not see the records.
Handling Price Rules
When using Alternate Price Fields, sale prices are sent to the Modern Retail admin panel every 5 minutes. Those sale prices are sent to your website based on the platform's settings.
When using Price Rules, there are two possible timing configuration based on the version of your Counterpoint integrator:
- For Modern Retail clients on version 2.10 of the Counterpoint integrator, Price Rules are rolled out at midnight.
- For Modern Retail clients on version 2.11 of the Counterpoint integrator, Price Rules are rolled out every 5 minutes.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to submit a support request.