bol: promotions

About this article

This article describes bol's promotions feature and how to manage it within ChannelEngine.

Table of contents

Introduction

Requirements

Notes to sellers

Participate in bol promotions

Export and import promotions via CSV

FAQ

Introduction

ChannelEngine allows you to participate in bol's promotional campaigns, which are sales campaigns and price reductions such as Black Friday and Sinterklaas. Promoted products are highlighted on bol's frontend listings.

For more details on bol's promotions, check out bol's article Discover promotions via bol.

Requirements

To use bol's promotions feature on ChannelEngine, contact your customer success manager at ChannelEngine to determine together if you meet the following requirements:

• You have an active bol channel on ChannelEngine with pricing v2 activated on the channel.
• You must have an evaluation rating of six or higher on bol.
• Submit a price that is below bol's allowed maximum promotion price (see below).
• In most cases, you must also have the buy box (or koopblok on bol). I.e.: lowering the price below the maximum price may not be enough to participate.

Notes to sellers

If you are eligible to participate in a bol promotion, keep the following notes in mind:

• bol can reduce its fee on promoted products.
• You cannot set start and end dates on bol promotions on ChannelEngine.
• bol controls the campaigns, not ChannelEngine. 

Participate in bol promotions

ChannelEngine imports bol's promotions once every night. During the import, ChannelEngine matches your listed products with the products in the promotions.

You can view imported promotions at Pricing, Promotions. Here, you find ongoing, expired, and upcoming promotions.

Click the pencil icon to see which of your products are eligible for the promotion:

To join a channel-led bol promotion:

1. In Promotions, enable Channel promotions in the filter bar. 
2. Click the edit icon to edit the channel promotion. If your price is below the maximum promotion price and you have the buy box, you are automatically enrolled in the promotion. If not, set a price below the maximum promotion price to join the promotion in Step 3.
3. In Set price, next to the products to be included in the promotion, enter your desired promotion price. The price you set is exported during the period of the promotional campaign.
4. Keep in mind that bol defines the Max. promotion price, or the maximum allowed campaign price, which you cannot exceed.
5. Click Save.

Once the channel promotion is set, your products on bol may be displayed with a Nu in prijs verlaagd (Price reduced now) label. Check bol's documentation to determine when and how this label appears. Ultimately, bol decides if you participate in the promotion, and simply winning the buy box may not be enough. 

Export and import promotions via CSV

You can also manage your bol promotions via a CSV file, which you can export to or import from ChannelEngine.

To manage promotions via a CSV file:

1. In Pricing, Promotions, click the download icon to create a file with your current promotions. Click Ok in the pop-up to confirm that you want to export all of your channel promotions to a downloaded file. A CSV file is downloaded. 
2. To import an existing CSV file, click the upload button. Use this CSV template to create your own CSV file of channel promotions. 

FAQ

Are price and/or reprice rules still active on promotion products?
The promotion price overrides the price calculated by the price rules and reprice rules, but not the manual price override for fee reductions, which takes precedence.

Can I assign the same product to more than one active promotion?
Although bol does support the inclusion of the same product in multiple active promotions, that is currently not possible on ChannelEngine. If you do include the same product in more than one active promotion, only the last inclusion is taken into account.

I cannot see the promotion price on bol's backend platform. Why is that?
The promotion price is set as your regularly exported price. It is not visible on promotion management pages on bol's platform as the promotion price (or promotie prijs), only as the current price (huidige prijs) if the promotion is active.