Pricing Categories Page Manual 3.0

Access to this menu in Betools through: Commercial > Pricing > Pricing Categories

This is the last step of Pricing Management, where the user can make the association between pricing model group and the products.

This section defines the price to a product in an instance. Pricing Products is where it set prices for products, by individual selection or an entire product type (using the Object Id field).

Note that: The individual price has priority over the default price. The purpose of the default value is to help the OB manager do not left a product without price, or set the default price with the most used price, and set individually just the exceptions. So if you want to set an individual price to a specific Pricing Product, it will be necessary fill the Object Id field with the Id of the product (movie, subscription, season, bundle, etc). Or it is possible to set an entire product type, for that, it will be necessary let empty the Object Id field and just set the Product Type you want (movie, subscription, season, bundle, etc) to be applied the prices for all product type selected.

Blocks

Pricing Categories

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Pricing Categories basic properties

Field	Description	Restrictions
Name	Name for this PriceXProduct. Informative, should be a descriptive name..
External Category	Name for this PriceXProduct. Informative, should be a descriptive name..
Instance	Instance where the price x product belongs to
Source	Controls the access and visibility of this PriceXProduct for other operators. Only operators with rights over this source or its children will be able to see it.	Mandatory
Owner	Operator that created this PriceXProduct	Readonly
Type	Bundle, Credit, LiveChannel, LiveProgram, Movie, PayPerView, Playlist, Season, Series, Subscription, Unknown. Dropdown menu
Price	Id of the product type selected. **	Set as 0 to be a default price to all Movies.

• ** Note: For now the user must select directly the Id from MiB.

Pricing Windows

Product Prices Block

This block is used to Add and Remove specific existent pricing models Pricing Model to an asset and define specific commercialization windows for the specified Pricing models. Commercialization Windows can be overlapped, but always the cheapest price for the same combination of Quality, recurrence and user type, will be seen by the users. That can be used to plan promotions during specific days and so on.

• Click the button and a select the Pricing Model you want to be added.
• After that, fill the DATE START and DATE END for the Commercialization with the specified pricing model
• Once finished, save changes by using the in the movie page and the pricing model group will be associated to the movie
  

Default pricing models
When no pricing has been specified for the movie for an instance, it is possible to define a Instance Default Pricing model that will apply by default. You are not able to modify those default pricing model groups from this page, you will have to go to Pricing Products and modify those with object Id = 0.

Overlapping pricing windows
It is possible to set more than one pricing windows in the same period of time, for example setting a pricing window from Jan 1st to Dec 31st and another, from Dec 25th to Dec 31st, at a lower price. In this case, the cheaper price will be always applied. This is useful for setting temporary promotions or offers.

Field	Description	Restrictions
Pricing Product ID	Identifier of the entry in Pricing Products table.	ReadOnly
Pricing ID	ID of the Associated Pricing Model.	ReadOnly
Title	Title of the associated pricing model	ReadOnly
DATE START	Begin of the commercialization Window with the associated price	Mandatory
DATE END	End of the commercialization Window with the associated price	Mandatory
Instance	Instance where the price x product belongs to	ReadOnly
Charging class	Pricing identifier that may be used to perform matching when receiving the TVOD purchase in the BSS.	ReadOnly
User Type	If the user is Telefónica or Non-Telefónica (In case the user was registered on the website).	ReadOnly
Price	The price of the product.	ReadOnly
Is Recurring	Indicates if this price is recurring or is a one shot payment/rental.	ReadOnly
Recurrence	If the “Is Recurring” is true then this will be the periodicity of this rent: Daily, weekly, Monthly, Quarter, Half or yearly, if not, this will be the period which the user has to, starting from the time of the purchase, to enjoy the content, Dropdown menu.	ReadOnly

Finishing all this steps, you will have all the pricing model’s associated with the product, e.g:

In other words, if the movie has only the pricing model associate on the Instance, the price of instance will be shown, if the movie has a specific price, this specific price will be shown. In case that some movie is inside a subscription, the pricing model of this subscription will appear as an option to be bought as part of this subscription. However, only one and the newest subscription will appear on movie/season page.

Actions

Create	Edit	Edit in List	Bulk Edit	Copy	Copy with Relateds	Delete

Create

Price X Product creation is enabled by default for most of the Content operator profiles.

1. Use the button to create an empty Price X Product.
2. Fill all the Price X Product data.
3. Once finished, save changes by using the button in the Price X Product page.

Edit

Price X Product edit is enabled. It can be used to perform modification in the Price X Product data. Once finished modifying the Price X Product, save changes by using the button in the Price X Product page.

Edit in List

Edit in list is disabled for Price X Products

Bulk Edit

Bulk Edit is enabled in the Price X Product page, allowing you to modify several Price X Product at the same time. However, not all the relateds blocks will be available for performing a bulk edit operation. The block available are:

• Basic Price X Product information

Copy

Copy is enabled for Price X Products. Using the button, you will be able to clone the basic information from the Price X Product into a new Price X Product. The relateds will not be copied using this mode. Once the Price X Product is copied, review that all the fields have been copied properly and press Save button.

Copy with Relateds

Copy with related is disabled for Price X Products.

Delete

You can delete a Price X Product either from the Price X Product Page, using the button. A confirmation popup will be shown before excluding it.