SAP ByDesign Price Determination using Extension F...

murthy_v · ‎2017 Aug 11

For companies using SAP Business ByDesign CRM (Customer Relationship Management) the pricing strategy plays a key role in the success of business. Especially ByDesign product capabilities for flexible pricing based on extension fields are key enabler for successful pricing strategies. Using customer specific extension fields you have the possibility to influence the ByDesign price determination and realize pricing strategies that take into account company or industry-specific information and data.

This blog post

Briefly presents a how to influence price, discount, surcharge, freight in SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management based on custom extension field

Explains how to adapt price strategy for custom extension fields

Explains how to enable custom extension fields to be part of standard pricing extension scenario

Explains how to maintain price, discount, surcharge, freight master data for custom extension fields

Briefly presents how price determination works in business documents based on custom extension fields

Background:

ByD offers feature enhancement by adding custom extension fields in UI via key user extensibility and by adding partner extension fields via SAP Cloud Applications Studio.
This page is about showcase custom specific extension fields to be able to influence price, discount, surcharge, freight in all Customer Relationship Management documents, like Sales Orders, Sales Quotes, Service Orders, Invoice Requests, Customer Invoices and so on.

Overview

The SAP Business ByDesign solution allows you to create new extension fields, either at an item level or header level, for all documents relevant to Customer Relationship Management, like Sales Orders, Sales Quotes, Service Orders, Invoice Request and Customer Invoice and so on. You can add these extension fields to newly created pricing tables in Business Configuration, to ensure that the price strategy is dependent on the value in those fields. You can also assign these pricing tables to access sequences to define their priority. you can create pricing tables for price lists, discount lists, freights, and surcharges.

Prerequisites

You must be a key user to carry out the following activities.

Process Flow

Key user follows the below steps to enable price determination by custom extension field

Step 1: Create an Extension Field

Key user adds extension field to introduce new functionality as part of enhancing existing solution.

For more information, refer to Create an Extension Field ， and Add an Extension Field to an Extension Scenario in Help Center.

While adding the extension field to an extension scenario, ensure to select the scenario CRM Pricing, to make the newly created extension field relevant for pricing in CRM. To do this, click the Further Usage link. On the Extension Scenarios tab of the screen, select CRM Pricing and click Add Field. The extension field will be made available in all the business contexts involved in the selected extension scenario.

To add the price relevant extension field to the service Calculate Price – Price List, go to Services tab, click Add Field and select Calculate Price – Price List or Calculate Price – Price Specification.
For example, If the extension field in Sales Order is in General tab, then use extension scenario CRM Pricing (Header) and the service Calculate Price – Price List.
If the field is in Sales Order is in Item tab, then use extension scenario CRM Pricing (Item) and the service Calculate Price – Price Specification.

Step 2: Configure Price Strategy for the Extension Field

Key user wish to influence price determination based on customer specific extension fields and realize pricing strategies that take into account company or industry-specific information and data

Go to the Business Configuration work center, click on Open Activity List, and select the fine-tuning activity Configure Price Strategy.

Create a Pricing Table

Pricing Table is a set of price relevant key fields ( Standard / Extension fields) based on which the price determination should be done

To create a pricing table, do the following:

Select Pricing Table to go the Maintenance View for Pricing Table

Click Add Row, enter an appropriate Name for the pricing table.

Note: The name of the pricing table must start with CUS, and must not exceed 18 characters in length.

Select the Relevance of the pricing table. Ideally, the relevance of the pricing table must be the same as that of the extension field. For example, during the creation of the extension field, if you have chosen the field to be at the item level of a business document, the relevance of the pricing table should be Item Level.

Under Fields, select the extension field created from the drop-down, and select Search if you want the extension field to be considered during master data retrieval.

If you are creating the pricing table for price list or discount list, then you must select List Identifier as the first row under the Fields table, followed by the extension field. If you are creating the pricing table for surcharge or freight, then the first row must be the extension field.

Select Save & Close to save your changes.

Define the Access Sequence

Sequence in which the price engine will start determining the Price, discount , Surcharge, Freight
1. Select Access Sequence to add the newly created pricing table to the access sequence.
2. Depending on whether you have created the pricing table for price list, discount list, freight, or surcharge, and on whether it is at header level or item level, chose the appropriate option from the access sequence list.
3. Under Pricing Table, click Add Row and add the pricing table to the list.
4. Under Fields, you will be able to view the columns of your pricing table that were added during its creation.
5. Select Save & Close to save your changes.

Assign Pricing Groups

Collection of Header and Item price tables displayed in "Product and Service Portfolio" UI for master data maintenance
1. Select Pricing Group Assignments to assign the pricing table to the relevant pricing groups.
2. Select the relevant pricing group, depending on whether you have created the pricing table for price list, discount list, freight, or surcharge.
3. Under Pricing Group Item Assignments, click Add Row to give a relevant description for your pricing table, and select the appropriate Header Pricing Table and the Item Pricing Table from the drop-down.
4. Select Save & Close to save your changes.

Do's and Don'ts Configure Price Strategy for the Extension Field

DO's

Sequence of entries in Access Sequence is used by price engine to determine the price , example: most relevant price table to be at the end of the access sequence table, example: in case if user has product specific price, Product category specific price and custom extension field specific price , then custom specific price should be at the bottom of the access sequence table , and then Product category specific and product specific.

Note 1 : Custom Price List has more priority over standard price list

Note 2 : Sequence of entries in "Pricing Groups" is only for the display purpose , order in which to display entries in price list UI in "Product and Service Portfolio" work center.

Use Case : you created two custom price tables one for "Product Category" and "Extension Field" , another price table for "Product" and "Extension Field" , in the access sequence you added the first entry with "Product" and "Extension Field" , then second entry in access sequence "Product Category" and "Extension Field" .

Note: order in which the entries are maintained in "Pricing Group" is not relevant for price list determination by price engine, order in "Pricing Group" is only for display purpose.

System behavior: In this case system will pick custom Product Category specific price list over custom Product price list .

Correction : maintain the first entry with "Product Category" and "Extension Field" , then second entry in access sequence "Product" and "Extension Field"

on delete of extension fields used in Configure Price Strategy , user has remove relevant entries from "Pricing Groups" and "Access Sequence".

Note 1: user could have deleted the extension field from system

Note 2: user could have unassigned extension field from "CRM Pricing" extension scenario

Use Case : you created custom "Extension Field" and added them to "CRM Pricing" extension scenario , after that used the extension fields in creation of pricing tables and used those price tables in the access sequence and pricing groups . After that you decided to delete the extension field either by marking it as not relevant in "CRM Pricing" extension scenario or by deleting it from system.

Note: extension field will have technical names in access sequence, example /BYD…… or YND3NWGIY…….

System behavior: system dumps on traversing to "Product and Service Portfolio" work center price list / discount list UI .

Correction : remove such entries (which are using obsolete pricing extension fields) from Pricing Group and Access Sequence

Don'ts

Creation of multiple custom Price Tables with same set of fields

Note 1 : make sure to reuse the price tables , instead of creating duplicate price tables with same keys, it will lead to functional issues during determination of price table at runtime and confusing for end user in understanding which one to use in what scenario.

Use Case : you created custom price tables for test purpose with combination of SAP Standard fields and "Extension Field" . After that you decided to recreate new price tables with same set of fields without checking to reuse the existing price tables.

Note: deletion of price tables is not allowed , since it will lead to loss of price master data.

System behavior: will end up having multiple price tables with same set of keys

Creation of Custom price tables with same set of keys as standard SAP delivered Price Tables

Note 1: Custom Price Tables always has priority over SAP delivered Standard Price Table, in such cases at run time price engine picks prices from custom tables , which could lead to function issues in price determination , example: in case if user has SAP delivered standard product specific price and created custom price table with "Product category" key field . Then price engine will pick "Product category" price over "Product" price, which is functionally not correct.

Use Case : you created custom price table with same set of SAP delivered standard fields, after that used the custom price table in the access sequence and pricing groups .

Note: you should check if standard SAP delivered price table will best fit the requirement ( check in Business Configuration )

System behavior: Custom Price list will have priority over any SAP delivered standard price tables .

Correction : remove the custom price list from Pricing Group and Access Sequence and scope the standard price list in Business configuration

Step 3: Price Master Data Maintenance

Price, discount , Surcharge, Freight master data can be maintained based on Standard / Extension fields

Go to the Product and Service Portfolio work center, Pricing view, and select the relevant option depending on the pricing table created.

In the Show drop down, select the description given to your pricing table, and click Go.

Click New, and under the Items tab maintain the relevant master data.

Click Save and then Release to save your changes.

Step 4: Determination in Business Document

Create a business document for which you have created an extension field. The pricing table determination will take into consideration the master data maintained.

On creation of business document user should make sure to enter the matching data in the price relevant standard / extension fields for which the price master data is maintained in system.

The following examples show how you can create new extension fields, and new pricing tables for surcharge and discount lists:

Example 1: Creating a new extension field, and a pricing table for surcharge. Assigning the extension field to the pricing table to ensure that the pricing is dependent on the value in the extension field.

1. In the Sales Order document, create a new extension field – Mailbox Options with the following three drop-down values:

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Speed

Express
You can create the extension field in the adaptation mode of the relevant business document. For more information, refer to Create an Extension Field ， and Add an Extension Field to an Extension Scenario in Help Center.

2. In the Business Configuration work center, click on Open Activity List, and select Configure Price Strategy in the fine-tuning activity phase.

Select Pricing Table, and do the following:
- Create new table with the name CUSMAILSUR.
- Set the Relevance as Item Level.
- Under Fields, select the extension field Mailbox Options.
- Select Search to mark it as a search relevant field.
- Click Save & Close.

Select Access Sequence, and do the following:
- Select the access sequence Surcharge that is relevant for item level.
- Under Pricing Table, add a new row with CUSMAILSUR.
- Click Save & Close.

Select Pricing Group Assignments, and do the following:
- Select the row with Surcharge.
- Under Pricing Group Item Assignments, add a new row with the description ‘Surcharge Determination for Mailbox Options’, and select the Header Pricing Table as CUSGEN and the Item Pricing Table as CUSMAILSUR.
- Click Save & Close.

3. In the Product and Service Portfolio work center, Pricing view, Surcharge subview, do the following:

Select ‘Surcharge Determination for Mailbox Options’, and click Go.

Click New, and under the Items tab maintain the desired surcharge amount.

Click Save, and then Release.

4. In the Sales Orders work center, create a new sales order. You will be able to view the new extension field Mailbox Options. The solution will consider the surcharge amount defined in the previous step while calculating surcharge for the mailbox options defined.

Example 2: Creating a new extension field, and a discount list, to ensure that the discounts calculated in the business document depend on the value in the extension field.

List is a combination of header level and item level fields. In this example, we are creating a discount list with Customer Group Field at the header level and Product ID at the item level for the extension field Mailbox Options.

1. In the Sales Order document, create a new extension field – Mailbox Options with the following three drop-down values:

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Speed

Express
You can create the extension field in the adaptation mode of the relevant business document.

2. In the Business Configuration work center, click on Open Activity List, and select Configure Price Strategy in the fine-tuning activity phase.

Select Pricing Table, and do the following:
- Create new table with the name CUSGROUP.
- Set the Relevance as Header Level.
- Under Fields, add one or more rows.
- Click Save.
- Create new table with the name CUSPROD.
- Set the Relevance as Item Level.
- Under Fields, select List Identifier, and select Search to mark it as a search relevant field.
- Under Fields, add two more rows. Select Product ID in one, and set the second row with the extension field Mailbox Options.
- Select Search for both rows to mark them as search relevant fields.
- Click Save & Close.

Select Access Sequence, and do the following:
- Select the access sequence Discount List (for CUSGROUP), and under Pricing Table, select the table CUSGROUP.
- Select the access sequence Discount (for CUSPROD), and under Pricing Table, select the table CUSPROD.
- Click Save & Close.

Select Pricing Group Assignments, and do the following:
- Select the row with Discount.
- Under Pricing Group Item Assignments, add a new row with the description ‘Discounts for Mailbox Options’, and select the Header Pricing Table as CUSGROUP and the Item Pricing Table as CUSPROD.
- Click Save & Close.

3. In the Product and Service Portfolio work center, Pricing view, Discount List sub view, do the following:

Select ‘Discounts for Mailbox Options’, and click Go.

Click New, and under the Items tab maintain the desired discounts.

Click Save, and then Release.

4. In the Sales Orders work center, create a new sales order. You will be able to view the new extension field Mailbox Options. The solution will consider the discount percentages and amounts defined in the previous step while calculating discounts for the mailbox options defined.

Example: Adding an Extension Field to the Sales Process

Overview

The following example describes how to add an extension field with the field type “Text” to the business context Account - General Information and then add the extension field to the end-to-end sales process flow. In this example, the extension field is added to the General Information, or header level, of each business context.

Procedure

Create the extension field

In this step, you create an extension field in the Account - General Information business context and make it visible in the Accounts view.

In the Account Management work center, Accounts view, enter adaptation mode by selecting Enter Adaptation Mode from the Adapt menu.

Select Edit Screen from the Adapt menu.
The adaptation panel opens on the right side of the screen.

In the adaptation panel, click on the Extension Fields pane. Here you see three screen sections to which you can add an extension field.

Select the screen section Accounts and click Add.

In the Add New Field dialog box, the business context Account - General Information is preselected. It is also possible to select the business context Contact - General Information but this is not required for this example.

Select the field type Text and enter a field label.

Click Save.
The extension field is created in the Account - General Information business context but is not yet visible on any screens or in any form templates, reports, and so on.

To make the extension field visible on the Accounts view, Accounts screen section, select the Visible checkbox next to the extension field name in the adaptation panel.

Save and publish your changes.

For more information about extension fields, refer to Extension Fields Quick Guide documentation in Help Center

Make the extension field visible on all account screens

You now need to make sure that the extension field that you created in the previous step is visible on all of the screens that you require it on. For example, the following procedure shows how to make the new text field visible on the corporate account editor. Note that all steps are taken while still in adaptation mode.

In the Account Management work center, Accounts view, select Corporate Account from the New menu.

On the New Corporate Account screen, select Edit Screen from the Adapt menu.

In the adaptation panel, click on the Extension Fields pane.
Here you see two sections to which you can add an extension field. They are both based on the Account - General Information business context. The extension field that you created on the previous step is shown in the List of Fields.

Select the Visible checkbox next to the extension field.

Save and publish your changes and close the adaptation panel.
Repeat these steps for all screens that you want to display the extension field on.

You can also add the extension field to form templates, data sources, reports, and so on. For more information about these steps, refer to following Key User Adaptation Quick Guide documentation in Help Center.

Add the extension field to the “Account – General Information to Sales – General Information” extension scenario You now need to extend the Account - General Information to Sales - General Information extension scenario so that the new extension field is available in the sales area.

In the Account Management work center, Accounts view, enter adaptation mode and open the Extension Fields pane in the adaptation panel.

Select the extension field that you created and click on the Further Usage link under Field Properties.

On the Further Usage screen, navigate to the Extension Scenarios tab.

Select the extension scenario Account - General Information to Sales - General Information. For detailed information about the data flows available in each extension scenario, click the arrow icon beside the extension scenario name.

Click Add Field. This activates the data flows between the account and the sales business contexts. The extension field now becomes available in all business contexts that are part of the extension scenario. You now have to make the extension field visible on any screens that you require in the sales area. This includes sales quotes, sales orders, and customer returns. For example, you could make the extension field visible on the Sales Order editor.

Extend all remaining extension scenarios To complete the end-to-end process, you must extend the Sales - General Information, Sales Order - General Information to Invoice Requests - General Information, and Invoice Requests - General Information to Customer Invoice - General Information , CRM Pricing extension scenarios and make the extension field visible on the necessary screens.

1. In the Sales Order work center, Sales Orders view, enter adaptation mode and open the Extension Fields pane in the adaptation panel.
2. Select the extension field from the list and click Further Usage.
3. On the Further Usage screen, on the Extension Scenarios tab, select the Sales - General Information extension scenario and click Add Field. This activates all data flows between business contexts in the sales area, for example between the sales quote and the sales order. You should already have made the field visible for these business contexts in the previous step.
4. Select the Sales Order - General Information to Invoice Requests - General Information extension scenario and click Add Field.
5. Navigate to the Customer Invoicing work center, Invoice Requests view. Here, you can make the extension field visible, as required.
6. In the Invoice Requests view, open the adaptation panel and under Extension Fields, select the extension field and click Further Usage.
7. On the Extension Scenarios tab of the Further Usage screen, select the Invoice Requests - General Information to Customer Invoice - General Information extension scenario. This activates the data flow between the invoice request and the customer invoice.
8. Navigate to the Customer Invoicing work center, Invoices and Credit Memos view. Here, you can make the extension field visible, as required. For more information about adding extension fields to form templates, data sources, reports, and so on, refer to following Key User Adaptation Quick Guide documentation in Help Center.

Result

The extension field is available on all screens for which you made it visible and, when you create follow-on documents based on the account, the extension field and the data entered in the field is available in all follow-on business documents.

krishnendu_laha · ‎2017 Aug 28

Hi Murthy,

Thanks for the Blog. SAP Business Bydesign CRM as a product completely new for me, could you please Brief us for which Customer it is focused and what is the architecture?

Regards,

Krish

JanMatthes · ‎2017 Aug 29

Hi Krish,

long time no see ;o)

SAP Business ByDesign is the first Cloud ERP from SAP and focuses on the the SMB market (up to 1500 employees). It is based on the same multi-tenant cloud platform as SAP Hybris Sales and Service (aka C4C). The CRM or customer engagement part of ByDesign is part of the ERP suite and not intended to run only as CRM. Here you get an overview on what it provides:

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/08/28/overview-on-sap-business-bydesign-customer-engagement-aka-crm/

Cheers

Jan

krishnendu_laha · ‎2017 Aug 31

Hi Jan,

Always something new from you ? But I believe my question drives you to write that Blog also. ?

Thanks for the overview, my comments would be in that Blog.

Regards,

Krish

marcosluis_vegamontes · ‎2017 Sep 14

Great Blog post, thanks for sharing these kind of explanations

Former Member · ‎2017 Oct 04

Great post, very helpful.

Something that would make ByDesign's pricing model even more powerful and flexible would be the ability to re-prioritize (re-order) the pricing tables - both of the standard tables as well as for the custom tables.

Regards,

Eelco

murthy_v · ‎2017 Oct 26

Absolutely and i think its a great input and idea .

could you please leave the write a note in "Ideas by Design" site.

Former Member · ‎2017 Nov 24

Sure: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/129753

Regards,

Eelco

Former Member · ‎2017 Nov 24

Also: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/145084

former_member480984 · ‎2018 Apr 11

Dear Murthy

First of all, thank you for your blog, it is of great help to have this information structured.

I followed this scenario to define a specific price list and it just works perfect. But for discount list we didn't get the expected result, the "special" custom discount list doesn't overwrite the standard, but just add a new discount that is summed with others. Do you know if it is possible to define the "special" discount list that has a priority over others?

Best regards, Aleksandra

murthy_v · ‎2018 Aug 07

Hi Colleagues,

Question:

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Is it possible to create "special" custom Discount list ?

Answer:

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Yes its possible. for details refer to query answered below along with snapshots.

for details along with example please refer to "New question in [SAP Business ByDesign] - Is there a possibility to maintain discount lists per com..."

https://answers.sap.com/questions/587830/is-there-a-possibility-to-maintain-discount-lists.html

Regards

Murthy

Jimmy1 · ‎2018 Dec 16

Hi

Sometimes we need a standard field in pricing which is not available in the pricing tables. Is there an option to add standard fields into pricing? Now we are using a workaround by creating an extension field and copying the data from the standard to the extension field. It works but it is not a 'nice' option.

Regards

Jimmy

murthy_v · ‎2019 Apr 02

Hi Jimmy,

thanks a lot for your query.

In a business case where standard field in pricing which is not available in the pricing tables please raise IR (Improvement Request) in customer influence portal of Business ByDesign. since its a standard field user is requesting to be part of pricing, the requirement needs to be addressed from SAP Business ByDesign.

as you mentioned in your memo till the requirement is full filled as part of standard delivery , user can use the workaround by creating an extension field and copying the data from the standard to the extension field. the down side of the work around is copying of Standard field value to extension field value would have bit of performance impact due to extra step of data copying.

Regards

Murthy

Jimmy1 · ‎2019 Apr 18

Hi Murthy

Thank for your clear and official answer. I think that most customers will use the extension fields solution as the IR of the influence portal takes too much time and offers not guarantee that it ever will be added. This is the main disadvantage of the IR's.

Regards

Jimmy

murthy_v · ‎2019 May 07

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks a lot for your response .

Please create IR and based on the response we will definitely take a look at the request.

regards

murthy

Chempian1 · ‎2019 May 20

Hi Murthy,

I have created a customized Journal Entry Voucher with an extension field at item-level. When I try to extend through adaptation mode in "Further Usage" in Data Sources and Reports the system shows "No data sources found".

Thanks in advance.

Chempian Pontie

lherkalo · ‎2019 Nov 12

Hi Murthy,

This is a VERY good article. Super helpful in setting this up. Can you please confirm for me that Indicator fields cannot be activated for extension field based pricing?

Thanks,

Laura

nivin13 · ‎2021 May 06

Hi Murthy,

this is a Super useful article.

I have an issue related to this article; I hope you can help me with it. our customer wants to add the discount amount in discount list as an absolute amount not as a percentage amount like it is standard pre- configured in SAP ByD system, is there a way to change it ?! and is it possible to add more than 3 numbers after the comma in the percentage discount amount?

thanks a lot ,

Nivin

murthy.v w.weber

KathrinD · ‎2021 May 06

Hi Nivin,

with release 2008 we enabled a feature to Maintain Absolute and Percentage based Overall Discounts in ByD CRM.

You can enable this in your scoping in the Questions section under the Path General Business Data -> Product and Service Pricing -> Sales Price Specification

In the section Absolute and Percentage based Additional Overall Discounts you have to enable the Question:

Do you want additional discounts at document level

You can find more information in the detailed Blog Maintain Absolute and Percentage based Overall Discounts in CRM documents

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/maintain-absolute-and-percentage-based-overall-discounts-in-crm-doc...

Best regards,

Kathrin

nivin13 · ‎2021 May 07

Hi Kathrin,

thanks for your reply, I actually read the attached Article before and activated the A.M question but it didn't solve my Problem, as my costumer wants to give the discount amount as Absolute Discount in Discount List not in sales order.

best regards,

Nivin

KathrinD · ‎2021 May 07

Hello Nivin,

this is not possible. You can either use % based discount or Fixed Amount based discount in your pricing strategy. This can also not be changed anymore once you have any transactional documents in the system.

Best regards,

Kathrin

murthy_v · ‎2021 May 07

Hi Nivin,

as Kathrin mentioned in the earlier memo , its would be possible to change only before any CRM document created in the system, after that the change of type discount (% based discount or Fixed Amount based discount)

regards

murthy

murthy_v · ‎2021 May 07

Hi Nivin,

short update from my end , you have couple of queries .

customer wants to add the discount amount in discount list as an absolute amount not as a percentage amount like it is standard pre- configured in SAP ByD system

Answer : it would be possible to switch b/w type of discount ( Percentage to Absolute or other way around ) only before any CRM document created in system.

2. is it possible to add more than 3 numbers after the comma in the percentage discount amount

Answer : the percentage decimal value is not configurable in system.

regards

murthy

nivin13 · ‎2021 May 10

Hi Kathrin, Hi Murthy.

Many thanks for your replies. they were really helpful.

best regards,

Nivin

roman_asenov · ‎2021 Jul 01

Dear Experts,

I am trying to implement almost the same case as described here in Example 2: Creating a new extension field, and a discount list, to ensure that the discounts calculated in the business document depend on the value in the extension field.

But I cant understand what field should we put here:

2. In the Business Configuration work center, click on Open Activity List, and select Configure Price Strategy in the fine-tuning activity phase.

Select Pricing Table, and do the following:
- Create new table with the name CUSGROUP.
- Set the Relevance as Header Level.
- Under Fields, add one or more rows.
- Click Save.

If i try to put the extension field i have created, i am not able to add it into the Item Level Pricing table.

And one more question - I am trying to use text type field, but seems it doesn't work... Is the only working field type is "list type"? The scenario i want to set is the following - customer should receive discount based on his turnover for which i create and extension field - for example if the turnover is between 0-100$ the discount is 0%, if the turnover is between 101-200$ the discount is 5%, and so on. I am trying to use text field and scales in the discount list, but seems there is no option to use value of the turnover in the scales (attached screenshot).

Thank you in advance!

former_member730496 · ‎2021 Aug 23

Dear Murthy,

Thank you for this article, but I tried to implement almost the same case as described here in Step 1: Creating a new extension field

when I created a new Extend filed with type: List and save, then click the link 'Further Usage' and go to Extension Scenarios tab
when I searched for CRM Pricing you mentioned, I didn't find it in the Extension Scenarios lists,
How can I do to find this scenario (CRM Pricing)
please help me.

Thank you a lot

former_member730496 · ‎2021 Aug 23

Dear Murthy,
Dear Experts,

Thank you for this article, but I tried to implement almost the same case as described here in Step 1: Creating a new extension field.

In Accounts work center - Accounts tab, when I created a new Extend filed, Name:CustomerRegion and with type:List and save, then click the link 'Further Usage' and go to Extension Scenarios tab
when I searched for CRM Pricing (Header) as you mentioned, I didn't find it in the Extension Scenarios lists,
How can I do to find this scenario (CRM Pricing)

please please please help me. I really need it

Thank you a looooot.

RWeidner · ‎2023 Nov 24

Hi Murthy,

the pricelists created with custom pricing table work in the UI.

But I cannot create or update such a pricelist via SOAP webservice.

When I read a PL, the pricingkey is in a tag <PricingValuation>

            <PropertyValuation>

               <PriceSpecificationElementPropertyValuation>

                  <IdentifyingIndicator>true</IdentifyingIndicator>

                  <PriceSpecificationElementPropertyReference>

                     <PriceSpecificationElementPropertyID>/BYD/A8TP8P000290EE6EAF751</PriceSpecificationElementPropertyID>

                     <PriceSpecificationElementPropertyDefinitionClassCode>2</PriceSpecificationElementPropertyDefinitionClassCode>

                  </PriceSpecificationElementPropertyReference>

                  <PriceSpecificationElementPropertyValue>

                     <ID>GG0001</ID>

                  </PriceSpecificationElementPropertyValue>

               </PriceSpecificationElementPropertyValuation>

               <Description languageCode="EN"/>

            </PropertyValuation>

When I add those tags to the "maintain" operation, I get an error.

All standard keys have an own tag in the root of "maintain".
When I ommit the pricingkey, the system creates one without.

Is it possible to create PL with custom pricing tables via webservice, if yes how?

thanks in advance,
Reinhard