Calculation Engines

Calculation Engines provide plug-in/plug-out methods for price calculation which can be used in Price Setting Package and other projects as a standalone library.

Any given engine can be passed a simple Price Parameter (type MATRIX) with keys and values as specified in the Additional Configuration column in detailed documentation of the engine.

All available strategies are configured using the StrategyDefinition Price Parameter. For more details see and documentation for each engine in subsequent sections. For additional documentation on the calculation engine, see .

Here is a short explanation of how the engines work and what they can be used for:

Engine Name

Functionality

Sample Supported Strategies

Engine Name

Functionality

Sample Supported Strategies

Takes one price as a base and applies a factor to it.

  • Cost Plus

  • Price Increase

Calculates prices based on the price of another SKU.

Note: This engine is deprecated.

  • Anchor Pricing

Calculates prices based on the price of another SKU and current SKU’s attributes impact value.

  • Anchor Pricing

Calculates prices according to existing competition prices. 

  • Competition Based Pricing

Calculates prices of a kit based on subcomponent prices.

  • Kit Pricing

Looks up prices from an existing table.

  • Recommended Retail Price

  • Promotion Pricing

  • Everything that works with a lookup of a stored price

Calculates a gross price of a product, based on a specific "pocket price" and discounts. The pocket price is always looked up using the LookupEngine.

  • Net Pricing

Any custom library method can be used as an engine as long as it takes proper parameters and returns a proper result.

  • Basically anything

 

Currently, with our standard out-of-the-box configuration, the package comes preconfigured with the following strategies:

  • Minimum Competition Based Price

  • Average Competition Based Price

  • Maximum Competition Based Price

  • Recommended Retail Price

  • Cost Plus

  • Price Increase

  • Kit Pricing

  • Anchor Pricing