Price

Overview of the main price classes

classDiagram
  direction BT
  class Price {
    CurrentPrice
    ListPrice
    ActiveFrom
  }
  class ProductVariant {
    ProductVariantId
    Name
    Fields
  }
  class Product {
    Id
    Url
    Images
    Videos
    Files
    Breadcrumbs
    Fields
  }
  ProductVariant --> Price
  Product "1" --o "1..n" ProductVariant

A Price is associated with a specific ProductVariant. It has a CurrentPrice (sometimes also just referred to as "Price") that holds the current price for the this particular product variant. It also has a ListPrice that is the normal price the product is sold for. If the product is on sale then the CurrentPrice is lower than the ListPrice.

The Price has an ActiveFrom field that is optional. If it has no value, then this price is always the current price for the product variant. If ActiveFrom is set, the price is only valid from this point in time. This enables you to model price campaigns by creating multiple prices, and it translates directly to the price model in Bizzkit Ecommerce Search.

Example campaign

Consider a product variant that has the following prices:

| CurrentPrice | ListPrice | ActiveFrom | |---|---|---|---| | 100 | 100 | null | | 80 | 100 | 2022-01-01 08:00:00 | | 100 | 100 | 2022-01-08 08:00:00 |

It will cost 100 and not be on sale until 8 AM the 1st of January 2022. Then it will cost 80 and be on sale for a week. Then it will go back to the old price, 100, from then on.

Currency and VAT

Prices are persisted in a specific segmentation. The currency and VAT comes from the segmentation instead of storing it together with each price value.