Promotion Management – Promotion Administration

March 31, 2015

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Objective

All backend roles can create and access promotions.

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1	Go to Admin > Promotion Overview Click “Add”
2	Provide all the necessary information to create a promotion: Name Start Date End Date Registration End Date Do you want to send a marketing email? (checkbox) (Read more about promotion email notifications here.) Amount of products Defines the amount of products a Seller can add to a the promotion. This way, a promotion with a limited amount of products per Seller can be created and the Seller has to select a small number of products. Products are counted based on the product set. This means that if a product contains five variations, all five variations can be added to the promotion and the product count is still “1” Image Description Price Criteria Price discount Price limit Select category. For each category specify: Price Criteria (Read here about settings for the field) Promo stock When applying for a promotion, the Seller has to commit to having at least this amount of stock available. If left empty, no stock limitations apply. Brands Chosen brands will allow Sellers to join the promotion only if they have products of a particular brand(s). If no brands are selected, no brand restriction is applied. Click “Save” Attention: After saving the promotion, changes to several fields are no longer possible. Please, check the data carefully before creating a promotion.
3	A green success message is displayed.
4	Teaser will be provided based on the promotion image.

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Go to Admin > Promotion Overview

Promotion Overview displays all created promotions. By default, the filter is based on “Open”

Promotions can have four statuses:

Multiple promotions can run simultaneously and include the same products.

An export is always based on a single promotion.
Promotion exports can be used in the Shop for importing all products that are related to that particular promotion.
Promotion exports will be completed after the registration period is hit.
All available promotion products are sent to quality control for approval or rejection.

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1	Go to Admin > Promotion Overview Click “Export” to get the export.	Promotion Export
2	Export includes all simple SKUs of promotion products with all promotion-related information: Promotion ID, Promotion Title, Start Date, End Date, Shop SKU, Seller SKU, Promotion Status, Seller Name, Category, Retail Price, Sale Price, Promotion Price, Current Stock, Promotion Stock, Promotion QC Status. Exports can be uploaded to the Shop system when they have the status “Complete.” “Incomplete’”is displayed when the promotion is not ready to be imported. Critical Knowledge If API between Seller Center and Shop is implemented, do not use CSV to create a promotion. This will be done automatically. Once a Venture is ready to use the API calls (see below), please create a TMLSD ticket so that the according configuration is enabled. The configuration that needs to be set to “1” is promotion_product_sync_api/enabled. You can see here and here the API calls that can be implemented to automatically sync promotion data to the Shop.
3	On the Promotion Review page the products which can be exported, need to have the following condition: product is pending product has stock The number of total pending products and the actual amount of products included in the export can differ, if seller applied products to a promotion, which currently don’t have any stock available.

Please see this article for more information regarding the Promotion Quality Control process.