Auto Price Updating Overview

Use Auto Price Updating to update product pricing using vendor-supplied information downloaded from the Internet or copied from a diskette or CD-ROM.

You can format the update file in comma-delimited (variable) format with a .csv extension, fixed-field (blocked) format with a .

Set the update to verify that product prices are updated correctly, or update quickly without verifying. You can also add new products to the product file by entering default product information that the system uses to create product records during the update.

To ensure a successful update have a unique identifier for each product, so the system makes a correct match between the products in your product file and the products in the update file.

The process for automatically updating products involves the following tasks:

Importing a price update file into the system.
Changing the screen format to match the update file.
Setting up the price update template.
Defining default product information for new products on the update file.
Scanning the update file to verify formulas and effective dates.
Updating a few records to test for accuracy.
Adding new products from the update file.