6.Click OK.

The View Content Properties page is displayed showing the updated information.

Pricing for Content for a Locale

Vending Managers can be widely distributed geographically. In such cases, multiple currencies are involved in pricing content. The system administrator configures the currencies and initial price equivalents for a Vending Manager’s locale. This is known as the General Pricing Rule. A General Pricing Rule is established for each Vending Manager so that a one-to-one correlation exists between one currency unit in the Catalog Manager and the equivalent amount in the Vending Manager’s currency.

For example, suppose a Catalog Manager administrator is in Canada and a Vending Manager administrator is in Italy. The General Pricing Rule calculates what the Italian currency equivalent of $1.00 Canadian is and applies that calculation to all content in the Vending Manager. So if a content item is priced at $1.50 Canadian, the Vending Manager administrator in Italy sees the content priced at 0.95 Euros.

In situations where the Catalog Manager and Vending Manager are running on the same server, both must use the same locale, therefore, the price for content is the same in the Catalog Manager and the Vending Manager unless a custom price has been created.

Setting Local Pricing

If the Automatically Update Catalog Price is checked, all content in the Vending Manager is automatically updated based on the General Pricing Rule whenever the pricing option for content is changed in the Catalog Manager. If this feature is not checked, you can manually update content pricing from the Pricing Option page.

The Pricing Option page lists the content types of all content in the Vending Manager and their assigned pricing option information. It also shows the last time content pricing was updated in the Catalog Manager and in the Vending Manager.

For content with custom pricing (content that is disassociated from its original pricing option), you can manually apply the General Pricing Rule to update those content items.

1.From the Vending Manager administration console, click Catalog on the main menu bar.

2.Click Pricing Options.

The Pricing Options page is displayed.

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