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8/16/2006 9:34:46 AM    Account based pricing
We have a requirement where a customer wants to have separate price 
 
lists for each Account in their B2B Commerce Server application. I 
 
believe that this is a pretty standard requirement for B2B, and was 
 
wondering what would be the best architectural approach. 
 
My initial thoughts would be to use Virtual Catalogue, as this customer 
 
has around 100 accounts this could mean the management and maintenance 
 
of 100 virtual catalogues. 
 
Anybody out there done anything similar? How did you implement it? 
 
What pitfalls have you found in your solution? 
 
Thanks for your help in advance.



8/16/2006 3:30:48 PM    Re: Account based pricing
It really depends upon your business requirements (products, pricing, 
 
discount, etc.) and the complexity of your catalog schema. If every customer 
 
will have the same basic products (or a subset /superset of those products) 
 
with different pricing, then the virtual catalog works great. It really cuts 
 
down on the maintence aspect. If every customer has different products, then 
 
I prefer to create customer specific base catalogs. Again, it really depends 
 
upon your business requirements. 
 
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Jeff Lynch 
 
MVP Windows Server System - Commerce Server 
 
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch 
 
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