Configure a Product Catalog
Product Catalog functions
The Connected World product catalog functions enable you to build a price book using comprehensive location-based attributes. With the easy creation of price books, pricing configurations at a location level are now feasible and can span a variety of dimensions such as by consumer, product, speed, connectivity status, competitive environment, entity type, geography, and distance to location. The Connectbase ecosystem enables you to easily publish your pricing to trusted partners.
Only Admin level users can add, revise, or overwrite pricing within The Connected World. Pricing cannot be revised or overwritten at the user level. User level pricing data can be viewed and/or exported through “My Buildings”.
The administrative steps required to set up your product pricing and availability within The Connected World are dependent upon how you want to share (or retrieve) pricing with trusted partners.
Pricing can be shared and/or retrieved in the following ways:
Network Radar - You can share your Connectbase supplier pricing through Network Radar to another Connectbase customer’s instance in TCW. The receiving instance can then view that supplier’s pricing on their Admin page and within “My Buildings”. For more information, refer to the Network Radar Feature Guide.
Availability Engine APIs – You can use the Connected World Availability product’s set of APIs to share information with your partner(s) about your buildings and the products and services you offer at those buildings. For more information, refer to the Connected World Availability API Reference Guide.
Configure, Price, Quote – You can use the Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) tool to create, design, and distribute pricing quotes to new or existing customers. For more information, refer to the Enterprise Profiler Feature Guide and the Configure, Price, Quote Quick Start Guide.
Internal APIs – You can request/obtain offnet pricing for buildings that are not in your Connectbase instance from another Connectbase customer’s instance through an internal API in CPQ.
3rd party API connections - You can use 3rd party API connections to obtain serviceability and pricing in CPQ from 3rd party vendors.
Note
Some pricing retrieval and distribution options require coordination with a Connectbase Support Engineer for initial setup (for example, if you want to share pricing with another TCW instance or you want to use 3rd party APIs).
The Connected World pricing feature enables you to configure two types of pricing:
Non-dimensional pricing – Default catalog pricing (stock pricing)
Dimensional pricing – Custom pricing that can be set to either override the default pricing of a building, or to define exception pricing based on certain factors, such as competition, account, partner pricing, connectivity status, geography, etc.
The Connected World provides the following four options for product pricing:
Default – Baseline pricing that is established before applying any program-specific pricing.
Wholesale – Pricing that is established for a product as sold in bulk to large distributor groups.
Enterprise – Pricing that is established for a large company or enterprise.
Channel – Pricing that is established for a product as sold to resellers/channel partners.