公开(公告)号：US20210241328A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US16779340

申请日：2020-01-31

Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.

Inventor： Mitchell Christensen ,  Parth Vijay Vaishnav ,  David Clark ,  Wei Gao

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06F9/54

Abstract: Pluggable pricing modules with functional extension points. A plurality of pricing methods are installed with a pricing service. The pricing service has a pluggable architecture to accept pricing methods including a set of pricing functions, and one or more extension points that provide programmatic hooks within an operational flow of the pricing service to provide optional interfaces to functional modules external to the pricing service. In response to a pricing request for a sales transaction, the pricing request including a pricing resolving selected pricing method for each sales item of the one or more sales items from the plurality of pricing methods. At least one of the one or more extension points are used to call an external functional module to interact with the operational flow of the pricing service. Aggregated results are provided to the source of the pricing request.

公开(公告)号：US20210241329A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US16779373

申请日：2020-01-31

Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.

Inventor： Mitchell Christensen ,  Parth Vijay Vaishnav ,  Wei Gao ,  Binyuan Chen

IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a pluggable architecture for performance of pricing operations. An embodiment of a storage medium includes instructions for installing multiple pricing methods at a pricing service including a pluggable architecture for pricing methods, each pricing method including a set of pricing functions; receiving a pricing request for a sales transaction including one or more sales items, the pricing request including a pricing context for each sales item; and performing a price calculation for the sales transaction, including resolving a pricing method for each sales item, applying the set of pricing functions for the resolved pricing method for each sales item, the application of the set of pricing functions being based at least in part on the pricing context for the sales item, calculating a price for each sales item based upon an outcome of the pricing functions, and aggregating the calculated prices for the sales items.