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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Operating
Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
Management Center for HCL Commerce
The Management Center for HCL Commerce, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
Catalog Filter and Pricing tool
Use the Catalog Filter and Pricing tool in Management Center to create and manage catalog filters, price lists, and price rules. Sellers, Sales Managers, and Account Representatives can use the tool's flexible features to implement catalog filtering and pricing strategies that meet the site's business needs over time.
Managing price rules
A pricing manager creates and manages the price rules that are used for storefront pricing.
Price rule building blocks: actions, conditions, and branches
When you build a price rule using the Price Rule Builder, your building blocks are actions, conditions, and branches. These building blocks are represented as icons, or elements, in the palette. You select elements from the palette and place them in a precise order along a flow that represents the price rule.
Branching in price rules
A branching element is an element that you can add to a price rule to split a single path into two or more paths. As a result, a single price rule can have different outcomes.
Condition Branch in a price rule
Use the Condition Branch in a price rule to set prices differently depending on conditions you specify. The Condition Branch splits a single path in a price rule into multiple paths. Your price rule must contain a Condition Branch if you want to use any of the condition elements, such as the Customer Condition or Catalog Condition elements.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
  - Management Center for HCL Commerce
    The Management Center for HCL Commerce, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
    - Management Center keyboard shortcuts
      Use the Management Center keyboard shortcuts to access user interface functions or complete tasks, using a single key or combination of keys.
    - Working in extended site stores in Management Center
      If your company operates an extended site, you can perform certain tasks directly from your extended site store within Management Center.
    - Manage content externally for use in Management Center
      If content management capabilities other than the functionality that is provided by default with HCL Commerce is required, HCL Commerce can be integrated with IBM Web Content Manager. If HCL Commerce is integrated with IBM Web Content Manager, you can use content from IBM Web Content Manager content libraries with Management Center objects.
    - Management Center user interface
      The Management Center user interface provides a usable, intuitive, and efficient way to complete your business tasks.
    - Using the Management Center
      The starting point for all Management Center tasks is to open the tooling. Afterward, you can use several methods to complete a task: by selecting menu options, by clicking toolbar buttons, by right-clicking and selecting menus, or by keyboard shortcuts.
    - Catalogs tool
      Use the Catalogs tool in Management Center to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
    - Marketing tool
      Use the Marketing tool in Management Center to create and manage marketing campaigns and other store content, excluding catalog content. You can use the extensive precision marketing features in the tool to deliver targeted marketing messages to customers.
    - Promotions tool
      Use the Promotions tool in Management Center to create and manage promotions that support the marketing campaigns for your site.
    - Attachments tool
      As a Product Manager, Marketing Manager, or Category Manager, you can use the Attachments tool to manage URLs that point to marketing image files, catalog image files, PDF documents, and multimedia files that you use in marketing campaigns.
    - Catalog Filter and Pricing tool
      Use the Catalog Filter and Pricing tool in Management Center to create and manage catalog filters, price lists, and price rules. Sellers, Sales Managers, and Account Representatives can use the tool's flexible features to implement catalog filtering and pricing strategies that meet the site's business needs over time.
      - Catalog filtering
        Set up catalog filters to entitle your customers to a subset of your catalog. Catalog filters can also be used as one of the price rule conditions when you are determining prices for the set of catalog entries your customers are entitled to.
      - Catalog filter assignment and contracts
        To entitle different customers to a subset of your catalog on the storefront, you assign a catalog filter to a contract using HCL Commerce Accelerator. This requirement applies to all business models (B2B, B2C, and extended sites). As a result, customers shopping under the contract are entitled to see and purchase only the set of catalog entries defined in the catalog filter.
      - Attribute dictionary attribute and property conditions in catalog filters
        When you include or exclude categories in your catalog filter, you can specify which catalog entry properties or attributes to include or exclude. To include or exclude categories, define conditions on the categories in the catalog filter. A condition can contain attribute dictionary attributes or catalog entry properties.
      - Scenarios for creating catalog filters
        The following scenarios show you how to create catalog filters by specifying categories, catalog entries, catalog entry properties, and attribute dictionary attributes.
      - Scenarios for using catalog filters
        By reviewing different business scenarios for using catalog filters, you can learn more about catalog filter assignment strategies.
      - Managing catalog filters
        Catalog filters can be managed by Sales Managers, Account Representatives, and Seller Administrators.
      - Managing price lists
        A pricing manager creates and manages the price lists that are used for storefront pricing.
      - Managing price rules
        A pricing manager creates and manages the price rules that are used for storefront pricing.
        Price rules: An overview
        A price rule is a set of instructions you create to generate prices on your storefront. Each time a customer views a store page that displays prices, HCL Commerce follows the instructions in the price rule to set a price for each catalog entry. The price rule is also used during checkout so that the customer is charged the correct price, before taxes, discounts and shipping charges. Using price rules for your store is optional; however, price rules provide a flexible, feature-rich alternative to using static price lists.
        Price rule assignment and contracts
        For a price rule to display offer prices on store pages, you must assign the price rule to a contract. This requirement applies to all business models (B2B, B2C, and extended sites).
        Price equations and constants in price rules
        A price equation is a mathematical statement used in a price rule to calculate and output a price. For example, you can create a price equation that adds margins or distribution costs to prices in a price list. You can use the same price equation in more than one price rule so that the set of price rules is easier to maintain.
        Independent and dependent price rules
        A price rule can be either independent or dependent. An independent price rule contains a price list. A dependent price rule does not contain a price list. Dependent price rules cannot output prices, so you cannot use them as contract-level price rules.
        Options for managing pricing
        The Catalog Filter and Pricing tool in Management Center gives you a flexible, alternative way of managing pricing for your store. Before you begin using this tool, you should be aware of the price management options available to you.
        Price rule building blocks: actions, conditions, and branches
        When you build a price rule using the Price Rule Builder, your building blocks are actions, conditions, and branches. These building blocks are represented as icons, or elements, in the palette. You select elements from the palette and place them in a precise order along a flow that represents the price rule.
        Actions in price rules
        Actions represent the instructions in a price rule. To include an action in a price rule, drag the action from the palette into the work area of the Price Rule Builder.
        Conditions in price rules
        You might need to set prices differently within a single price rule depending on certain conditions. If so, add condition elements to your price rule. Your price rule must contain a Condition Branch to create a separate path for each condition element.
        Branching in price rules
        A branching element is an element that you can add to a price rule to split a single path into two or more paths. As a result, a single price rule can have different outcomes.
        Condition Branch in a price rule
        Use the Condition Branch in a price rule to set prices differently depending on conditions you specify. The Condition Branch splits a single path in a price rule into multiple paths. Your price rule must contain a Condition Branch if you want to use any of the condition elements, such as the Customer Condition or Catalog Condition elements.
        Coordinator Branch in a price rule
        Use a Coordinator Branch to compare the prices output from two or more nested price rules and then give the customer either the highest or the lowest price. You can also use the Coordinator Branch to run a series of nested price rules in a priority sequence, and then use the first nested price rule that returns a valid price.
        Scenarios for using price rules
        By reviewing different business scenarios for using price rules, you can learn more about price rule assignment strategies and how price rules are inherited.
        Best practices for price rules
        Review these best practices for creating price rules so you can learn ways to simplify price rule maintenance and reduce performance impacts.
        Creating and assigning price rules
        By creating price rules and assigning them to contracts, you can manage the prices customers are entitled to.
        Viewing where price lists, rules, equations, and constants are used
        You might need to check where a pricing object is used before changing it or deleting it. For example, before changing a price equation, you might want to see a list of price rules that use the price equation. If so, you can open the pricing object and click a tab labeled References. For price rules, this tab also shows a list of contracts to which the price rule is assigned. The References tab is available for these pricing objects: price lists, price rules, price equations, and price constants.
    - Installments tool
      Use the Installments tool in Management Center to create and manage installment rules that support the payment methods for your site.
    - Commerce Composer tool
      Create pages and build layouts for your store directly in Management Center without involving IT by using the Commerce Composer tool. Take advantage of the tool's page design and management functions to improve your productivity and give you more control over the customer experience.
    - Store Management tool
      As a Seller, Site Administrator, or Channel Manager, you can use the Store Management tool in Management Center to manage your stores. The Store Management tool in Management Center replaces all of the store management features in HCL Commerce Accelerator, except store creation and the ability to suspend and resume stores.
    - Workspace Management tool
      The Workspace Management tool is a graphical user interface tool that is used to manage workspaces and workspace-related activities. It provides a single view across all workspaces and all tasks in the workspaces where managers can see how work is progressing.
    - Previewing a store
      Preview your store to ensure that changes made in Management Center show up in your store as expected. You can use store preview in production, authoring, and staging environments.You can use store preview within the authoring instances for any of your environments. Do not use store preview within the live instance of your HCL Commerce on Cloud environments.
    - Management Center frequently asked questions (FAQ)
      Find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the Management Center.
    - Management Center Troubleshooting
      If you encounter issues with the Management Center that are not related to any specific tool, review this troubleshooting topic to solve common problems.
  - HCL Commerce Accelerator
    Use the HCL Commerce Accelerator to maintain online stores.
  - HCL Customer Service for HCL Commerce JSP stores
    HCL Customer Service for HCL Commerce provides customer service enhancements that enable a customer service representative (CSR) to resolve common issues and capture orders. These capabilities are built into the HCL Commerce Aurora storefront and enable a CSR to complete key tasks on behalf of a guest and registered customers for both B2B and B2C stores. Customer Service for HCL Commerce is offered for both Professional and Enterprise editions.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Condition Branch in a price rule

Use the Condition Branch in a price rule to set prices differently depending on conditions you specify. The Condition Branch splits a single path in a price rule into multiple paths. Your price rule must contain a Condition Branch if you want to use any of the condition elements, such as the Customer Condition or Catalog Condition elements.

Guidelines for using a Condition Branch

Use only one type of condition on the paths that extend from a given condition branch. For example, do not use a Customer Condition on one path and a Price List Condition on another path extending from the same Condition Branch.
Place only a single condition element on each path extending from a Condition Branch.
You can use more than one Condition Branch in the same price rule.

For examples of how to use the Condition Branch, visit any of the links in Conditions in price rules. Additional guidelines are provided in the topics for each condition.