Price Override Options from Orgill for POS & Boost Catalog

Price Override Options from Orgill for POS & Boost Catalog

How does product pricing flow between Orgill, your POS system, and your Boost catalog, and what's the best way of setting price overrides?

Overview

There are multiple ways of setting "price overrides" for your POS system and for your Boost catalog.

There is a preferred method of setting your price overrides in one place and having those overrides automatically transferred to both your POS system and to your Boost catalog.

Diagram


Details

  1. Options: Price overrides can be specified at any of the following levels: Orgill.com, POS, Boost Content Manager (BCM), and/or Boost Catalog.
  2. Best Option: Price overrides set within Orgill.com are able to automatically flow into a compatible POS system and Boost Catalog, i.e. the overrides only need to be specified in one location if specified within the dealer's Orgill.com account.
  3. MAP: Price overrides specified at any level will bypass any Vendor MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) limits, if any, on any overridden SKUs, i.e. price overrides supersede or ignore Vendor MAP limits for overridden SKUs. Therefore, it's important to take any Vendor MAP limits into account when setting price overrides for any Vendor MAP controlled SKUs.
  4. POS: For a compatible POS system to accept product pricing, including overrides, from Orgill.com, the POS system must be configured to accept pricing updates from Orgill and there should not be any duplicate price overrides set with the POS system. In other words, only set your price overrides within Orgill.com, not within your POS.
  5. Catalog: For the Boost Catalog to accept product pricing overrides from Orgill.com, BCM must be configured with a pricing model of “Your Retail” and there should not be any duplicate SKU price overrides set within BCM or the Catalog. In other words, only set your price overrides within Orgill.com, not within BCM or your Catalog.
  6. Frequency: POS pricing update frequency is controlled by your POS system configuration. Boost Catalog pricing is updated weekly. Each catalog has a specific weekly time slot when it does its automatic product data updates.
  7. Data Direction: Pricing data flows "downstream" in the above diagram, meaning that it flows from Orgill.com to the POS and BCM, and further from BCM to the Catalog. The pricing data does not flow "upstream" from the POS to Orgill.com nor from the POS to the Catalog.
  8. How: If a dealer doesn’t know how to specify price overrides within Orgill.com, they should ask their Orgill Sales Rep and/or the Orgill Pricing Dept to explain.