Increase your sales with the price engine

Now you can effortlessly go head to head against the competition! Just sit back and let the noon Pri...

Now you can effortlessly go head to head against the competition! Just sit back and let the noon Price Engine take care of the fierce pricing battles of e-commerce.

What Is a Price Engine?

The price engine is a price optimization software that saves you time and maximizes your sales by helping you win the buybox internally and compete with external offers. It's a tool available to you in Seller Lab which captures real-time price changes across the site, and automatically adjusts pricing within the range that you authorize to stay competitive and close to the winning offer.

How does the Price Engine work?

To activate the price engine, you need to make sure to accept the Terms and conditions in the seller lab following the steps shown below.

- In Seller Lab click on Legal and Tax option and click on Terms and conditions.

Note: Make sure to read and accept the Terms and conditions to start using the price engine on Seller Lab.

- In the next step you will see the option to view and read the terms and conditions and accept them.

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

- Click on Catalog and then select My Catalog

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 Save Changes to activate the pricing engine on the SKU.

Regular View

- Select the SKU you want to enable on Pricing Engine.

- Under the Offer tab, scroll down the Pricing Information section.

- 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 the update will go live immediately.

How to Activate My Price Engine in Bulk

- Click on Catalog and then click on Imports.

- Then click on Add Imports.

- Select Price in Export Type, and Pricing method Update in Export Sub-type, as well as your desired product status. Then click on Export Template.

Once the export is 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 the import section, 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. It will show the status of your file, whether it 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!

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