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Other Promo Price Settings (ONIX only)

Virginie Bouilhac
Updated

Best Practice

Since Spring 2022, Rakuten Kobo support a 2 prices method to schedule promotions via Onix 3.0:

  • Ensure your price composite uses <PriceQualifier> code 08 as "promotional offer price".
  • Ensure the promo price has both a start and end date. All dates are inclusive: they start at 0:00 and end at 23:59 EST of the specified start and end dates.
  • Ensure your regular price does not contain any dates.

--> Recommended if applicable.

Correct Usage (example)

Example of a sample scheduled price reduction, with embedded comments for clarification:

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>
</Price>
<!-- the above price is the regular price. It does not contain any dates. 
The price will stop as soon as the below promo dates will be reached 
and be back at the end date. -->
<Price>
    <PriceType>01</PriceType>
    <PriceQualifier>08</PriceQualifier> <!-- Mandatory -->
    <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 -->
<!-- the regular price is automatically reinstated at 0:00 EST on Dec 31 -->

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