You don’t want to maintain a large catalog or complex pricing or cross-sell / discount rules in two different systems? We provide flexible Catalog options!
Catalog Free
The catalog-free version of Nexway Monetize’s product management feature allows you to sell products in your store in one-time transactions without having to host any product information or prices on the Nexway Monetize platform.
If you decide to use this version:
• Prices and other product-related information are not duplicated on Nexway Monetize so you don’t have to maintain two different product catalogs or to create products in advance of sales.
• A buy link is generated on the fly with the products and their prices and all other information required for the transaction via a single API request.
The API allows you to provide all required product information in real-time, such as:
• Description
• Price
• Discount
• Quantity
• Packshot / Imagery
• Product recommendations (cross-sell, upsell…)
This version is most suitable for customers with large product catalogs and their product information system in place, and where duplicating the product data into Nexway Monetize would be complicated and time-consuming. Also, when product prices change, Nexway Monetize does not need to be updated.
Example of a cart link:
https://{hostname}.nexway.store/checkout/add?cartId=74e1c65d-bc71-4d84-a994-ec123re956
When you will create a cart via API, you will receive a buy link that you can integrate into your store.
Note: Checkout carts are for single-use only and are deleted once an order has been placed.
To create the checkout cart, send the following request:
POST https://apidoc.nexway.store/docs/nx-api-docs/reference/nx-iap-store.json/paths/~1stores/post
The cart definition should include the following information:
• Sales territory(ies) and locale
• Number of products to be sold
• End-user data (First and last name, email and billing address)
• Full catalog data (customer ID, catalog name, status, etc.)
• Products with price, description, currency, language
• Discounts, if any
• Product recommendations (to up-sell and cross-sell products), if any
API Call > Buy link
Catalog Remote
This feature is especially useful for cases where:
• You are using complex cross-sell and upsell rules in your existing system and don’t want to duplicate them.
The Catalog remote feature allows you to get a purchase link and access the relevant cart, without previously entering all the product details in the Nexway system. Only basic product information (core product or asset with name, Publisher Ref ID, etc.) is defined on Nexway Monetize while pricing and product variations may be managed on your servers, and be communicated to the shopping cart through API call.
When the remote-catalog version is used for product management:
• You are the single source of truth for your prices.
• You can keep your prices confidential if this is a major concern.
• Prices are not duplicated on Nexway Monetize thus removing the complexity of having to update pricing information on the platform when prices change.
• You manage product variations and lifetime on your servers and so control which product variation will be displayed in the shoppers’ checkout cart.
Note: You need to have your APIs in place that Nexway can query to get pricing information when required.
When a shopper reaches the shopping cart for a specific product, Nexway sends an API request to you to retrieve the price for the product which is then displayed automatically in the cart. Any product variation that corresponds to the core product and any associated promotional programs (discounts, cross-sell, upsell…) may also be returned.
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