Importing the Adobe Products and Base Prices in the BSS Platform

The first step before creating or updating the Adobe products automatically to the platform, via the Get Services Definition process, is to add to the Adobe Service Manager their base prices by uploading the respective Adobe Excel File (Commercial, Education, Government) to the respective fields. To do this, one must download the Excel file that is issued to all the distributors of Adobe each month.

Downloading the Official Adobe Excel File Containing Products & Base Prices

Each distributor has his own set of SKUs & prices that he sells from Adobe, which can be found in the Excel spreadsheet file that can be downloaded from the "Adobe Partner Portal".
You have to log in with your credentials as a Distributor, and then you can download the Excel with the products and the prices from the indicated section:

The Excel file contains the distributor’s cost & sell base prices with no margin or markup included. 

Uploading the Adobe Price List File to the Adobe VIP MP Service Manager

After you have downloaded the Official Adobe Excel file you must import it inside the COM Pricing File field of the Adobe VIP MP Service Manager of the platform.

You just have to click on the Browse button and then locate and choose the Official Adobe Excel file from your computer system.

After importing the file, you have to click on the Save button of the instance.

Updating the Adobe Products and Prices in the BSS Platform

The update of the Adobe products and prices occurs after the import of the Official Adobe Excel price list file during the Get Services Definition process on the Adobe VIP MP Service Manager instance.

• If prices change, the BSS add-on prices will be updated to reflect the new values. To do this, upload the latest official Adobe Excel file into the COM Pricing file field found within each Adobe VIP MP service manager instance. After uploading, save the instance and run the Get Services Definition process to complete the update.

• If Adobe introduces new products, the Get Services Definition process will automatically create them since no match will be found with the existing BSS add-ons.

• If discontinued products are introduced, the Get Services Definition process cannot handle that situation automatically. As a result, if a set of SKUs is no longer available in the Official Adobe Excel price list file, the Get Services Definition process will not automatically deactivate these add-ons (or add the Discontinued status) in BSS.
  You are responsible for cross-checking the previous Excel file with the new one to find any differences (regarding discontinued SKUs), and, accordingly, make the required manual changes in the BSS platform.

Automatic Assignment of Add-ons to Adobe Product Container

Once the creation or update process is complete and the Adobe products, along with their prices, have been added or updated as add-ons on the BSS platform, the system will automatically establish a relationship between these add-ons and the "Adobe Services" container product during the Get Services Definition process. This means that no further manual actions are required from you to assign the add-ons to the Adobe product container.

Publishing the Adobe Product with the Add-ons in Storefront

You can publish in your Storefront the Adobe products (in the form of add-ons) under the Adobe container product called "Adobe Services". 

First, make sure that each one of the add-ons is published in Storefront. You can do that by gathering all the Adobe add-ons. 
Please navigate to BSS > Billing > Products and from the products' list page, select the "Advanced Search..." option located on the right-hand side of the list.

Afterwards, create the following two Advanced Search conditions:

• Field Name: "Is Add-on" - Operator: "is equal to" - Value: "Yes"

• Field Name: "Product Type" - Operator: "is equal to" - Value: "Adobe Services"

Click on the Search & Close button to initiate the search.

The results of the search will appear on the products' list where all the Adobe add-ons will be gathered.

Now, you just have to open each Adobe add-on, click on the Storefront Settings option, and check the checkbox Publish to Storefront.

After publishing all the Adobe add-ons to Storefront, you also have to publish the Adobe container product in Storefront.

The method for configuring the Basic Storefront Settings of a product, is the same followed for any other product.

• To publish the Adobe Container Product to your Storefront, please follow the steps described on the page "Publish to Storefront Basic Options".

  You can also check the page Define the Marketing Material of your Product for more details.