Sun Microsystems 5 manual Pricing Options, Changing the Pricing of Content

Pricing Options

At the same time that you select a pricing model, you have the option of creating pricing options for it. Having predefined pricing options gives you more control over the pricing of content and can make managing content easier. You can set up predefined pricing options for content providers to choose from instead of having them decide content pricing and usage terms.

Another benefit to creating predefined pricing options is that it enables you to apply the same purchase criteria to all contents with the same content type. For instance, all image content types can have the pricing option of $0.50 for every download. By changing the purchase price of a pricing option, you change the purchase price for all content using that pricing option at once. You always have the ability to edit a pricing option or create custom prices for specific content items as needed.

A pricing option consists of a unique ID for the pricing option, an option name, and the purchase characteristics of the content. The pricing option consists of the following elements:

■External options ID - A unique designation used by the billing system to identify this pricing option.

■Pricing option name - A name that identifies a specific pricing option.

■Purchase price - A monetary value, which can be 0.

■Specific pricing model - The condition for purchase. Only one model can be applied.

A pricing option looks like this, for example:

1222 Ringtones-Jazz $.99 1st Download Only.

Pricing options cannot be deleted, you can only enable or disable them once they are created. Regardless of whether a pricing option is enabled or disabled, you can still edit the option through the Catalog Manager.

As the Catalog Manager administrator, you determine whether content providers are required to use the pricing options you enable for the content type or create a custom price based on the available pricing model. An option on the MIME types page allows you to restrict the content type to the pricing options you enabled. Content providers submitting content of that type must use the assigned pricing option.

Changing the Pricing of Content

You can change the pricing of content in the following ways:

■Edit the content type

■Edit the properties of a submitted, published, or unpublished content item

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