Exporting pricing data from HCL Commerce to Dynamic Pricing
You can configure a scheduled job to export product data and pricing data from HCL Commerce to Dynamic Pricing. After the pricing data is exported to Dynamic Pricing, merchandisers can use Dynamic Pricing to analyze this data in relation to defined business strategies. Dynamic Pricing makes real time pricing recommendations based on competitor pricing and market activity.
About this task
This scheduled job runs the Data Load utility, which exports product and pricing data into .csv
files. The set of files are compressed into a .zip file, and then uploaded to Dynamic Pricing
through an SFTP transport.
Note: In a production environment, this scheduled job is configured on
the staging or authoring environment.
Procedure
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Configure the Dynamic Pricing SFTP transport.
- Configure the scheduled job to export products and prices from HCL Commerce to
Dynamic Pricing.
- Optional: Alternatively, you can create a scheduled task
at the operating system level to export your data to Dynamic Pricing.Notes:
- This is an alternative to the scheduler in HCL Commerce.
- Configuring a scheduled task at the operating system level reduces excessive load on the HCL Commerceserver if you have a large product catalog.
Results
Note: Any data that is external to HCL Commerce, such as competitor pricing, needs to be extracted separately by a designated
provider.