DocumentationCommerceSaas price indexer Guide

SaaS Price Indexing

Last update: Wed Jun 19 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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SaaS pricing indexing improves site performance by moving heavy computational processes such as indexation and price calculation from the Commerce application to Adobe’s Cloud infrastructure. This approach allows merchants to scale up resources quickly to boost price indexation times to reflect price changes faster when sending data to the storefront and connected Commerce services.

The following diagram shows the indexing data flow to SaaS services when Commerce is using the price indexing process included in the Commerce application:

Default data flow

With SaaS price indexing enabled, the data flow changes. Price indexing is performed using Commerce SaaS data export.

SaaS price indexing data flow

All merchants can benefit from using SaaS price indexing, but merchants that have projects with the following characteristics can realize the greatest gains:

  • Constant price changes–Merchants that require repeated changes to their prices to meet strategic goals such as frequent promotions, seasonal discounts, or inventory markdowns.
  • Multiple websites and/or customer groups–Merchants with shared product catalogs across multiple websites (domains/brands) and/or customer groups.
  • Many unique prices across websites or customer groups–Merchants with extensive shared product catalogs that contain unique prices across websites or customer groups. Examples include B2B merchants that have pre-negotiated prices or brands with different pricing strategies.

Use SaaS Price Indexing

SaaS price indexing is enabled automatically when you install Adobe Commerce Services. It supports price calculation for all built-in Adobe Commerce product types.

Requirements

  • Adobe Commerce 2.4.4+

Prerequisites

NOTE
If needed, the default price indexer in the Commerce application can be disabled using the Catalog Adapter.

Synchronize prices with SaaS price indexing

After enabling SaaS price indexing for Adobe Commerce, update prices on the Storefront and in Commerce Services by synchronizing the new feeds:

bin/magento saas:resync --feed=scopesCustomerGroup
bin/magento saas:resync --feed=scopesWebsite
bin/magento saas:resync --feed=prices

Prices for custom product types

Price calculations are supported for custom product types such as base price, special price, group price, catalog rule price, and so on.

If you have a custom product type that uses a specific formula to calculate the final price, you can extend the behavior of the product price feed.

  1. Create a plugin on the Magento\ProductPriceDataExporter\Model\Provider\ProductPrice class.

    code language-xml 
    <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\ProductPriceDataExporter\Model\Provider\ProductPrice">
        <plugin name="custom_type_price_feed" type="YourModule\CustomProductType\Plugin\UpdatePriceFromFeed" />
    </type>
</config>

  2. Create a method with the custom formula:

    code language-php 
    class UpdatePriceFromFeed
{
    /**
    * @param ProductPrice $subject
    * @param array $result
    * @param array $values
    *
    * @return array
    */
    public function afterGet(ProductPrice $subject, array $result, array $values) : array
    {
        // Override the output $result with your data for the corresponding products (see original method for details)
        return $result;
    }
}
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