Markets overview

In e-Commerce, a market determines the price a user has to pay for items being purchased. A customer is either assigned to a market with a default value, or is explicitly assigned by the administrator. All users under that customer see the same prices and currency set in the market defined for the customer.

Each market is assigned to a price list created in the ERP. This price list is used as the retail price in the shop.

A market is used to set multiple locales to allow users to select their preferred language when browsing or purchasing from the shop.

Each market can also be used to filter verb BODs.

See BOD rules overview.

In M3, there are different fields for stock level indication depending on the business process. At the market level, there is a flexibility to map which availability field the customer would like to utilize for displaying stock levels in the e-Commerce site. These are the M3 fields related to availability:
  • AVAL AllocatableOnhandBalance
  • AV01 AllocatableNet
  • AV02 Available Inventory
  • STQT OnhandBalanceApproved

See Creating markets to learn how these fields are mapped.

Each market can also be used to filter countries that are available for consumers on single user's address creation when purchasing from the web shop. If no country is set up in the market set for consumer user, then all available countries in Rhythm are displayed in the web shop for the consumer user when creating an address.