The Customer Account Price Lists feature allows implementers to display, in the Customer Application catalog, products and prices from price lists tied to a customer.

This feature is implemented as an iStore profile option, along with Oracle Pricing setups.

Customer Account Price Lists Functional Flow
Following is the functional flow for catalog logic when using the customer account price lists feature:

1. If the customer account profile option is Yes and the price list can be located, the application retrieves and caches the account-level price list, and displays these prices in the catalog.

2. However, if the price list cannot be located, the application checks the value of the site-based price lists profile,

IBE: Use Price List Associated with Specialty Site.
• If the site-based price lists profile is Yes, the application retrieves and caches the price list specified for the site, and displays these prices in the catalog. If it cannot retrieve this price list, the application sets the price list to null, and no prices are retrieved.
• If the site-based price lists profile is No, the application sets the price list to null, and no prices are retrieved.

Implementing Customer Account Price Lists
Use the following steps to implement customer account price lists:

• Step 1 - Set Profile Option
• Step 2 - Link Customer to Price List

Step 1 - Set Profile Option
The profile option, IBE: Use Customer Account Price List, controls whether the customer account price lists feature is available to the runtime catalog. Set at site level to Yes to use the feature. The default value is null, which is treated as No.
Note that specific behavior is exhibited when using this profile option with the site-based price lists profile option, IBE: Use Price List Associated with Specialty Site. See the above table for more information.

Note: Best price search should be enabled only when both of the above profile options are set to No. For other combinations of the above two profile option values, best price search is not supported and should not be enabled.

Step 2 - Link Customer to Price List
Steps
1. Set up a price list.
2. Link a customer to the price list. Refer to the Oracle Advanced Pricing Implementation Guide for steps.
3. Bounce the middle-tier and Web Cache servers.