Price Manager Overview

Price manager is a CloudBlue Commerce component that stores price data for the whole distribution chain in CloudBlue Commerce and defines pricing strategies. It allows a user to set and manage the prices, and processes incoming requests for price data from other CloudBlue Commerce components or external systems.

Price Manager has two operating modes: proxy and prod. The prod mode is still in design and development, and must not be used.

When you enable Price Manager in proxy mode, requests for prices from components that support Price Manager will no longer go to BSS directly, but through Price Manager serving as a proxy. Although doing so does not add new features immediately, this will ensure a smooth transition to Price Manager once the prod mode becomes available.

Scenarios supported in the latest Price Manager version:

• Placing sales, change and renewal orders.

• Calculation of charges by Rating Engine.

• Running daily billing process.

Note: If you experience any issues with the scenarios mentioned above with Price Manager enabled, you can disable specific scenarios as explained in this section.