Price Rules

Add price rules to cloned products

While using the Product Cloning tool, you can also instruct Synkro to attach price rules to the cloned products. When a price rule is attached to a cloned product, the price of the cloned product will be converted based on the attached rules, and any future price changes to the original “parent” product will be converted based on these attached price rules when syncing the price to the cloned product.

Create price rules

To create price rules in your Synkro account, navigate into the Synkro app from your parent store and click on Products > My products. Then, click on any product title in the resulting list of products. It doesn’t matter which product you select.

Navigate to Products > My products. Then, click on any product title in the resulting list of products.

Next, you will land on the product page within the Synkro app. Here you can see all of the price rules which are attached on the current product. Since you are visiting the Synkro app from the parent store, it is normal that there are no price rules attached to this product, as the price rules will be attached to the child products in the child store.

Click on the link which says Manage price rules.

Click on the link which says Manage price rules

Here we see a list of all the price rules which we have created under our Synkro account. To create a new price rule, click New price rule.

To create a new price rule, click New price rule.

On the next page, you will be able to enter your price rule details and save it. This price rule has now been created, and will be available for you to select the next time you use Synkro’s Visual Product Cloning Tool.

Automatically attach price rules to cloned products

By default, Synkro will not automatically use these price rules to convert the prices of cloned products. This is especially relevant if you are using Synkro’s tag-based product cloning system or the automatic product cloning system, where you aren’t given the opportunity to select a price rule for each product (as is possible with the visual product cloning system). If you’d like to attach price rules automatically to products being cloned into specific stores, you can configure this within the Synkro settings.

First, navigate into your Synkro settings and select the Product cloning tab.

Navigate into your Synkro settings and select the Product cloning tab.

Here you will see many settings related to the product cloning process. Scroll down this page to the section titled Automatically add price rules to cloned products. Here, you can select the destination store for which you’d like cloned products to have price rules automatically attached. Select the destination store, then select the price rule which you’d like automatically attached, the click on the button Add automatic price rule application. You can create multiple automatic price rule applications for the same store, which will be applied in sequence to all new products which are cloned into the destination store.

Select the destination store, then select the price rule which you’d like automatically attached, the click on the button Add automatic price rule application.

When you configure an automatic price rule application, you also choose an Application scope — either Per product or Store-level. This choice determines how the rule is applied to cloned products. The difference is explained in the next section.

Congratulations! The next time you clone a product into the destination store, it will have price rules applied automatically.

Store-level vs. product-level price rules

Automatic price rule applications can be configured with one of two scopes. Both convert prices in exactly the same way — the difference is how the rule is associated with your cloned products.

Product-level (“Per product”)

This is the default, and matches Synkro’s original behavior. When a product is cloned, the selected price rules are attached directly to that individual cloned product. Each cloned product keeps its own copy of the attached rules.

• Best when you want fine-grained control — different products in the same store can have different rules attached.
• When using the Visual Product Cloning Tool, you can review and adjust the attached rules for each product before cloning.
• Because the rules are attached per product, changing a store’s automatic application later does not retroactively affect products that were already cloned — those products keep the rules that were attached at clone time.

Store-level

With store-level scope, the price rule is not attached to each cloned product. Instead, it is configured once for the destination store and resolved automatically whenever a price is calculated for products cloned from that source store into that destination store.

• Best when you want the same pricing logic to apply consistently to every product cloned into a destination store, without managing rules on a per-product basis.
• Store-level rules apply to all applicable cloned products, so updating (or removing) the store-level application affects those products the next time their prices sync.

How the two scopes interact

Product-level rules always take precedence. If a cloned product has its own attached (product-level) price rules, those are used and any store-level rule of the same type is ignored for that product. Store-level rules only apply to cloned products that don’t have their own attached rules of that type.

Because of this precedence, adding a store-level price rule is safe for existing setups: products that already have per-product rules attached are unaffected, and the store-level rule only takes effect on cloned products that have no rules of their own.

When you clone with the Visual Product Cloning Tool into a destination store that has store-level rules configured, those rules are shown as a read-only list (they apply automatically). If you need to attach different rules to the products in this particular clone operation, choose Override with per-product price rules and select the rules you want — this attaches them per product, which takes precedence over the store-level rules for those products.