Increase Your Sales with the Price Engine
What Is a Price Engine?
How does the Price Engine work?
Note: Make sure to read and accept the Terms and conditions to start using the
price engine on Seller Lab.
Once you agree to the TNCs of price engine, you need to set up you price engine minimum and maximum price range. This range is used by the price engine tool as a threshold for pricing the items.
Note: The maximum and minimum price range should take into consideration all VAT,
fees and commission.
1. What is the maximum price and when will your products be priced at the maximum pricing?
The maximum price refers to the highest value that you're ready to sell your item for and still be considered a fair price for buyers. The scenarios where your products will be priced at maximum are as follows:
- Winning the buy box
- No competition for the same product.
- If your maximum price is less when compared to your competitor.
2. What is the minimum price and when will your products be priced at the minimum pricing?
The minimum price refers to the lowest value that you're ready to sell your item for. The minimum price should also help you determine your profit margin on the product. Noon will not price the item less than what you have set as the minimum price range for the item. The scenarios where your product will be set on minimum price are:
- When you are not able to win the buy-box with your current rating and prices.
- When you are not able to beat the external competition with your pricing.
How to Activate My Price Engine in Single Upload
Quick View
- You can either upload the pricing rule from the partner catalog page by clicking on the Edit button in the price column.
- In the pop-up, select the pricing method as Pricing Engine, then select your pricing engine rule. Set your price engine min-max range, and click Update to activate the pricing engine on the SKU.
Regular View
- Select the SKU you want to enable on Pricing Engine.
- Under the Offer and Content tab, scroll down the Price Details section and select the pricing method as Pricing Engine. Select your Pricing Engine Rule and also update your Price Engine min-max range.
Note: You need to set your price engine minimum and maximum pricing you are willing
to sell the item for.
- Click on Save Changes and update will go live immediately
How to Activate My Price Engine in Bulk
- Select Price in Export Type, and Pricing method Update in Export Sub-type, as well as your desired product status.
-Then click Request Report
Once the report downloaded, follow these steps:
- Activate the Price Engine by adding pricing_engine to the psku_pricing_method column.
- Select your Pricing Engine rule by adding internal_and_external_comp or internal_comp_only in the pricing_rule column.
- Set your desired minimum price and maximum price thresholds in the price_engine_min & the price_engine_max columns.
- To Deactivate the Price Engine add manual to the psku_pricing_method.
- Upload your file to Seller Lab in the Imports tab
- In Seller Lab, click on Catalog
- Then select Imports and click on New imports
- Select Price in Imports Type and Pricing method Update in Imports Sub-type, as well as your desired product status.
- Click Next to upload your file.
- You can either Upload or Paste the data in the space provided, as shown in the screenshot. Then click on Submit.
- Once the file is upload, it will be available in the Imports section under the Price, Stock and Deals tab. It will show the status of your file, whether is successful, failed or partially failed.
- If your uploaded file receives a Failed or Partially Failed status, you will have the option to download the file to check and fix the errors. The most common reasons for file upload failure and solutions to fix those errors will be listed.
| Error | Explanation | Solution to fix the error |
| global min/max breached | Your price engine range breached the global min/max range. | Adjust your price engine min/max within the global min/max |
| PSKU min/max breached | Your price engine range breached your PSKU min/max range | Adjust your price engine min/max within your PSKU min/max range. |
| sku was not found | The SKU you entered was not found. | Ensure the SKU details mentioned in the sheet are available in your partner catalog. |
| incorrect pricing_method | The pricing method can only be one of manual or pricing_engine | Ensure the pricing_method column is either manual or pricing_engine. |
| Pricing Rule can only be applied to sku on Pricing Engine | Pricing Rules are only applied when the pricing method is pricing engine | Change pricing method to pricing_engine. |
Pricing Engine requires pricing_rule column to be set as internal_comp_only or internal_and_external_comp | You did not enter a pricing engine rule | Add pricing_rule column and specify one of internal_comp_only or internal_and_external_comp. |
Pricing Rule can be one of internal_comp_only or internal_and_external_comp | You entered an incorrect pricing engine rule | Enter one of internal_comp_only or internal_and_external_comp as pricing rule. |
| price_engine_min can not be greater than price_engine_max | Your price engine min is higher than your price engine max | Ensure your price engine minimum price is less than the price engine maximum price to avoid this error. |
| missing data field | Some fields in the row are missing | Fill in all the fields of SKUs you want to activate the price engine for. |
| country_code is not valid country | Country code can only be one of AE, EG, SA | The country_code row should have the correct country code i.e., AE for UAE, SA for KSA and EG for Egypt. |
| duplicate row | You entered the same row twice | Avoid entering the details of the SKUs twice in the same document. Each SKU's details should be filled only once. |
- Once you have corrected the errors, you can re-upload the file after making all the necessary corrections.
That’s it!
Got more questions?
Contact us at seller@noon.com
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