Price Effective Date (ONIX 2.1) and Price Date Role (ONIX 3.0) composites allow you to schedule promotional prices with your ONIX feed.
--> Required field.
Rakuten Kobo supports the three price method:
- Ensure your starting regular price has an end date. Otherwise, our system won’t know to look for a new price.
- Ensure the promo price has both a start and end date.
- Ensure your regular price is reinstated by including a new start date. All dates are inclusive: they start at 0:00 and end at 23:59 EST of the specified start and end dates.
Example of a sample scheduled price reduction, with embedded comments for clarification:
ONIX 2.1 example (with embedded notes for clarification):
<price>
<j148>41</j148>
<j151>7.99</j151>
<j152>USD</j152>
<j162>20151222</j162>
</price>
<!-- the above price will end at 23:59 EST on Dec 22 -->
<price>
<j148>41</j148>
<j151>3.99</j151>
<j152>USD</j152>
<j161>20151223</j161>
<j162>20151230</j162>
</price>
<!-- the promo price starts at 0:00 EST Dec 23 and ends 23:59 EST Dec 30 -->
<price>
<j148>41</j148>
<j151>7.99</j151>
<j152>USD</j152>
<j161>20151231</j161>
</price>
<!-- the regular price is reinstated at 0:00 EST Dec 31
Onix 3.0 uses the PriceDateRole tags where
PriceDateRole 14 = From Date and PriceDateRole 15 = Until Date -->
<Price>
<PriceType>01</PriceType>
<PriceAmount>10.00</PriceAmount>
<CurrencyCode>USD</CurrencyCode>
<PriceDate>
<PriceDateRole>15</PriceDateRole>
<Date>20151221</Date>
</PriceDate>
</Price>
<!-- the above price will end at 23:59 EST on Dec 21 -->
<Price>
<PriceType>01</PriceType>
<PriceAmount>8.00</PriceAmount>
<CurrencyCode>USD</CurrencyCode>
<PriceDate>
<PriceDateRole>14</PriceDateRole>
<Date>20151222</Date>
</PriceDate>
<PriceDate>
<PriceDateRole>15</PriceDateRole>
<Date>20151230</Date>
</PriceDate>
</Price>
<!-- the promo price starts at 0:00 EST on Dec 22 and ends 23:59 EST Dec 30 -->
<Price>
<PriceType>01</PriceType>
<PriceAmount>10.00</PriceAmount>
<CurrencyCode>USD</CurrencyCode>
<PriceDate>
<PriceDateRole>14</PriceDateRole>
<Date>20151231</Date>
</PriceDate>
</Price>
<!--the regular price is reinstated at 0:00 EST on Dec 31 -->