Price batches

A price batch groups related price changes so they can be reviewed, approved, and published together on a chosen effective date. Batches give you a review gate before prices go live and a single unit to schedule and track. This page covers the batch workflow for merchandisers and reviewers. For the underlying records, see Price records.

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Why batches

Publishing prices one record at a time offers no review step and no way to make a set of changes go live at the same moment. A batch solves both: it collects the records, requires an approval before anything publishes, and carries a single effective date so every price in it takes effect together. Most price creation flows put records into a batch automatically. Mass-create and bulk-set operations find or create an open batch keyed on the effective date, so changes sharing a date coalesce into one batch. You can also create a batch explicitly and add records to it.

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The review lifecycle

A batch moves through a fixed set of states. You cannot approve a draft directly — it must first be submitted for review, mirroring a two-person workflow where the author submits and a separate reviewer approves.

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Required effective date

Every batch carries an effective date, entered as a calendar date and interpreted as local midnight in your organization’s publishing time zone. This date is both the schedule (when the prices go live) and the grouping key that auto-batching uses to coalesce same-day changes.

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What you can edit, and when

Edit rules tighten as a batch advances, so a reviewer can trust that an approved batch will not silently change: Trying to edit a field that is not allowed in the current status returns an error, so the interface can explain why the change did not stick.

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Scheduled publishing

An approved batch publishes on its own when its effective date arrives — you do not have to trigger it. You can watch progress on the batch’s publish-status view, which reports how many prices have published, failed, or been skipped, broken down by publishing target. If you need a batch to go out immediately — for testing or an emergency reprice — a Publish Now action lets an approver publish an approved batch without waiting for the effective date. Publish Now is not available for a batch whose effective date is in the future; create a batch dated for today instead. Where prices are published (the connector, target, and environment) is covered in the Publishing section.