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2. Add Product Classification(s)
Go to Aspenware Commerce > Product Classifications and click Add assignment.
Select the product you created above.
Scroll to ‘Dynamic Pricing Days to Arrival’ and click Assign.
Optionally if you’d like to show the large pricing calendar view, scroll to ‘Show pricing calendar view’ and click Assign.
Optionally you can decide if you want to allow non-consecutive multi-day selection or if you’ll allow consecutive multi-day selections. If neither option is necessary for your product, skip to the next step.
If you’d like to allow non-consecutive multi-day selections, scroll to ‘Is Non-Consecutive Multi-Day Product’ and click Assign.
If you’d like to require consecutive multi-day selection, scroll to ‘Is Consecutive Multi-Day Product’ and click Assign.
Click Add.
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3. Optional Product Setup
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Season Types group seasons together to assign to products (e.g. a Lift Ticket season type may be assigned to lift ticket products and include a Lift Ticket Weekdays season and a Lift Ticket Weekends season.)
Go to Aspenware Commerce > Dynamic Pricing > Seasons
Click Seasons (button in the upper right corner)
Click Season Types (button in the upper right corner)
Specify the Season Type Name and click Add.
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NOTE: Currently, each season can only be assigned to one season type. If product A and product B both use the Saver Season, but product A’s seasons are Saver, Off-Peak, and Holiday, and product B’s seasons are Saver and Regular, then create a different season type to assign to product A and B. Two Saver seasons will also need to be created, one for the season type that will be assigned to Product A, and another for the season type that will be assigned to Product B. |
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2. Assign Season Type to product
Go to Aspenware Commerce > Dynamic Pricing > Seasons > Season Types > Assign Products to Season Types
Select the desired Product
Select the Season Type
Click Add
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3. Create Pricing Seasons
Pricing Seasons are created so that dates can be blocked together when updating pricing for a product in the dynamic pricing tool. These should be set up prior to pricing the product. Pricing seasons are assigned to pricing season types that are assigned to products.
Go to Aspenware Commerce Plugins > Dynamic Pricing
Click Seasons (button in the upper right corner) and specify:
Name: Enter the name for the season (ie: weekends, weekdays, whole season, etc)
Display Order: Enter the display order for the season.
Season Type: Select the Season Type created above.
Click Add.
Select Set Datesbeside the newly created season (table is organized by display order).
Navigate to the first month and year with dates included in this season. Highlight the appropriate dates in the left column.
Select multiple dates in a row using the Shift key; select multiple non-consecutive dates using the Command key on a Mac and Control on a PC. When all the desired dates in the month are selected, select the > arrow key in the center of the modal.
Continue for each month within the season you are planning to have sales for and when complete, select Save.
Season names, display orders, season types can be edited and de-activated/activated by selecting Edit. To edit dates, select Set Dates.
4. Configure Products for Dynamic Pricing
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Setup Override Windows
On the Seasons page, click Dynamic Pricing and search for the desired product.
Select Edit Override Windowswithin the desired product’s row.
Days to arrival windows are defined here (e.g. rules like unique pricing for day-of purchasers, within 48-hour purchasers, outside of 48 hours, etc.)
Override Window setup depends on pricing window rules. Specify the following for all of the days to arrival windows for the product:
Window Title: Enter a descriptive name for the window.
Display order: Set to 101 for the window that is closest to the start date, 102 for the next furthest window out, and so on. For example, 101 for Day of Pricing, then 102 for the 7 days out until the day before pricing, 103 for the 14 days to 8 days before pricing, etc.
Days out start: This is the number of days from the arrival date when the pricing will apply. For example, if setting up an ‘outside of 48 hours’ window, set this to 2 and it will apply two days out from the arrival date if there isn’t a more specific (closer to arrival date) level set that applies to the reservation date.
Days out end: Set to 100000. Do not set this to a value higher than 100000.
Track Quantity: Check this for all override windows. Checking this will cause a Type drop-down to appear, select ‘Price’ rather than 'Percent.'
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Click Add.
Once all Override Windows are added, and if you are not using tiered pricing, the product can be priced.
The order for override windows is very important. When all of your override windows have been added, they should be ordered from closest to arrival date to furthest from the arrival date and should look something like the example below if using multiple override windows. Notice Base is first, then the closest window to the arrival date is second, and so on.
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NOTE: If all “Days Out Start” date ranges are not fully encompassed then the earlier date will be used. For example, in the screenshot above if a guest buys a product 3 days prior, then the pricing will fall under the “3 - 2 days out price” window. |
Setup Pricing Tiers (^Jenni - Does this note make sense? And are there any risks to not have all dates overlapping? Like could $0 tickets be sold? I feel like I’ve seen $0 tix sold with this config.
Setup Pricing Tiers (Optional)
Pricing tiers can be set up by returning to the Dynamic Pricing Editor page, scrolling to the product, and clicking Edit Tiers.
Enter the Tier Title, Description of the Tier, and Display Order, and click Add. Once all of your tiers have been created, you will see a list of them in order of display.
5. Price Product Using Pricing Tool
Go to Aspenware Commerce > Dynamic Pricing in Admin.
Search for the product using the Product name field (e.g. Type “ticket” to find lift tickets).
Find the desired product’s row and click Edit Pricing.
Set Base Pricing
Base pricing is used to show the %savings the customer is receiving by buying online. Configuring base pricing is required.
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6. Click the button that matches the name of your Season Type
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In the pop-up enter the price that will be used as the base price aka ‘window rate’ and click Update.
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Repeat this process if you have additional Seasons that need to be priced for. You can also “dummy” price the entire season and use an Excel spreadsheet to change pricing which is covered in step 6 below.
Set Override Individual date(s) can also be modified by selecting the date(s) on the calendar then clicking Edit Date Range. There is also a “Month View” toggle on the calendar that can be used to see a wider set of date ranges.
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Set Override Pricing
Override pricing is the price that guests will purchase the product at. This is where pricing window prices are set, tier pricing is set, and each tier's quantities to be sold are set.
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7. Click the button that has the name of the Season Type
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In the pop-up window complete the following:
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All desired attributes (these can be multi-selected by dragging or using the Command key on a Mac or Control on a PC). Avoid selecting more than 50 combinations at once. Something must be selected for each variant (or box of options) for dates to load below. If you have conditional attributes on your product and a selection is not needed for a variant, select something for that variant anyway and the correct combinations, that do not include the unnecessary variant, will be loaded below in the date selection area.
Season: Select from the Base/Season drop-down
Override Windows: These can be multi-selected by dragging or using the Command key on a Mac or Control on a PC.
Select either Show Grid or Show Schedule (The Show Grid option display is a grid view of product attribute combinations shown in rows and pricing seasons across the columns.)
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To update a product attribute combination price for every date in a specific season, click where the desired product attribute combination and season intersect (click the -- area or the current price.)
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Update the price in the modal. This will update every date in the pricing season for that product attribute combination.
If the Override window is set up to have tiered pricing, then enter both a price and quantity for each tier. Once the quantity sold is reached it will go to the next tier, and so on, until the tiers sell out. If the tiers sell out, it will sell the price defined at the top that is simply called 'price.' Set the top price quantity to 10000, so that it doesn’t sell out.
If the Override window is not set up to have tiered pricing, then enter 100000 in the quantity field always. Do not set this to a value higher than 100000.
To update a more specific range of dates rather than the entire season, follow steps to update pricing using the Show Schedule option.
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If there is already a price in the quadrant, that is the lowest price that is set up in the range but doesn’t necessarily mean the entire season is priced.
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Show Schedule: Should be used for updating specific days, weeks, or months that may not align with associated pricing seasons.
The Show Schedule option display is a calendar view with rows for all of the product attribute combinations that have been selected. There are options for a week or month calendar view.
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In the Schedule view, to edit the pricing for a larger date range referred to here as a Season, select which season to edit in the Select Season drop-down.
Then select the product attribute combinations and click the [Season Name] button. This presents the season editor with the dates of the season listed on the right and the product attribute combinations with a price field for each. Make desired changes and click Update to save.
To select the product attribute combinations (rows in the table), select the titles in the far left column. One or more attribute combinations may be edited at once.
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NOTE: Seasons are preconfigured and tied to a season type, which is assigned to the product. If seasons don’t appear, assign a season type to the product. |
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If editing specific dates in a narrower date range (within a month or week), choose desired dates from the calendar and select the appropriate product attribute combinations (see steps below). Click the Edit Date(s) button. Update pricing in the Day’s Editor window and click Update to save.
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To select multiple non-consecutive dates, use the top row in the calendar pricing table and select each desired date. Do not select the cells directly within the product attribute combination rows.
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To deselect dates, use the top row and click the selected date deselect it. Do not select cells directly within a product attribute combination row.
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To select multiple consecutive dates, select and drag across the dates desired within the product attribute combination row.
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To select multiple product attribute combinations, check the combinations in the far left column that need to be updated.
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Price: this is the price that customers will pay based on the override window
Quantity: enter 10,000. If sales surpass this number then products will be sold for $0.
(see BLUE highlighted area in screenshot below)
If you are using tiers complete the following for each tier:
$: the price for this tier
#: the quantity to be sold at this tier
(see GREEN and BLACK highlighted areas in the screenshot below)
Once all fields are completed click Update
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Avoid selecting more than 50 combinations at once.
These can be multi-selected by dragging or using the Command key on a Mac or Control on a PC.
Jenni - Does “Show Grid” do anything?
6. Export/Import Excel Pricing Spreadsheet
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Once a product is “dummy priced,” or priced with real values, the pricing export can be pulled and re-imported. Pricing exports and imports can be configured in the new Import Pricing plugin.
Go to Aspenware Commerce > Import Pricing search for the desired product using the product name, category or both.
A product must set up for dynamic pricing and priced for the season, even if the prices added are “dummy prices.” If this setup is not first done it will not work.
You can identify if a product is set up for dynamic pricing if you search for a product and the “type” is set to Override. If it is set to none, first set up the product for dynamic pricing using the sections above.
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Guidelines for preparing the Import Pricing (without tiers) spreadsheet are outlined below.
Before importing pricing spreadsheets is possible, preparing the correct pricing export sheet is required. This sheet has specific values that must be present for the import to work, so creating the spreadsheet without first exporting is not possible. To prepare your export spreadsheet, define the start and end date for the date range that will be updated. This can be an entire season.
Click to Prepare Import Spreadsheet.
When the export is done, the spreadsheet will look something like this. Find the variant(s), override window combination(s) and date(s) you wish to update, and update the price, setting the inventory using rules outlined below.
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Once the pricing spreadsheet is completed with desired data updates, it’s ready to be re-imported.
Define the same start and end dates as what was defined for the pricing download spreadsheet
Find the recently updated pricing download spreadsheet on your computer. Ensure it’s saved as a csv.
Select Import Pricing Spreadsheet.
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NOTE:If only a set of dates or combinations are being updated, pricing imports can be trimmed down to only have relevant rows in them. This will not cause issues with the upload, but only data that is defined in this spreadsheet will be updated with the import. |
If the product being priced doesn’t have tiers, the import is complete. Be sure to check the product in the Dynamic Pricing plugin to ensure prices were properly updated as expected.
To prepare the Import Tiered Pricing (WITH tiers), follow the same steps as above, however, define the “available inventory” quantity to have the inventory that is available at that price before the price bumps to the next tier.
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