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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Administering
Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
Managing features
You can administer the features for your store and site, such as attribute, catalog, promotion, marketing, order management features, and more. The administration tasks that you can complete differ depending on the type of feature and the tool that you use to administer your store and site.
Promotions
You can administer promotion features such as creating or deleting promotion folders and configuring the promotions engine.
Configuring the promotion engine
By editing the promotion engine configuration XML file, you can change various configuration settings for the promotion engine.
Enabling the best deal feature for promotions
When you enable the best deal feature for your site, the promotion engine automatically calculates the best deal for orders that qualify for more than one promotion in the same promotion group with the same priority. You can also minimize the performance impact of the best deal feature by specifying an upper limit for the number of promotion sequences to evaluate for each order.

Enabling the best deal feature for promotions

When you enable the best deal feature for your site, the promotion engine automatically calculates the best deal for orders that qualify for more than one promotion in the same promotion group with the same priority. You can also minimize the performance impact of the best deal feature by specifying an upper limit for the number of promotion sequences to evaluate for each order.

Before you begin

Ensure that you understand the best deal feature and its potential performance impacts:

About this task

This procedure affects promotions created in Management Center only.

Procedure

Open HCL Commerce Developer and switch to the Enterprise Explorer view.
Open the promotion engine configuration XML file in an editor:
workspace_dir/WC/xml/PromotionEngineConfiguration/WCSPromotionEngineConfig.xml

Within the <DefaultBehavior> element, locate the lines of code labeled 1 and 2 in the following example:


<DefaultBehavior>
        <StatelessInvocation>true</StatelessInvocation>
        <CheckTargetingAtRuntime>true</CheckTargetingAtRuntime>
        <SkipTargetingOnCodeEntered>true</SkipTargetingOnCodeEntered>
        <PriceAdjustmentBasedOnStandardOfferPrice>true</PriceAdjustmentBasedOnStandardOfferPrice>
        <EvaluationFlowControl>0</EvaluationFlowControl>1
        <SequenceCombinationLimit>50</SequenceCombinationLimit>2
        <Debug>false</Debug>
</DefaultBehavior>
…

To enable the best deal feature, change the value of the <EvaluationFlowControl> element to 1.
Optional: To change the upper limit for the number of sequences to evaluate for each promotion, change the value of the <SequenceCombinationLimit> element to a different number.

Save and close the file.

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