This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Product | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07 OCT 2021 | Commerce | Indicator for Unconfigured Models in Line Item Grid | Updated document. Delivered feature in Update 21C. |
| 30 JUN 2021 | Oracle CPQ Administration | Support for Pagination of User Login History | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 30 JUN 2021 | Oracle CPQ Licensing Metrics | Support for Improved eCommerce Interaction Licensing | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 02 JUN 2021 | Created initial document. |
Oracle Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) enables companies to streamline the entire opportunity-to-quote to-order process, including product selection, configuration, pricing, quoting, ordering, and approval workflows. Oracle CPQ provides a flexible, scalable, enterprise-ready solution ideal for companies of all sizes that sell products and services across direct, indirect, and e-commerce sales channels.
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle CPQ 21C.
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The following Commerce features are available in Oracle CPQ 21C.
Concurrent Commerce Rule Processing Enhancement
Oracle CPQ 21C enables the internal parallel processing of Commerce rules to improve end user response time
Formula Management Enhancements
Oracle CPQ 21C exposes system variables and version attributes in the Formula UI. This feature significantly improves the administrator experience by removing the need to write BML to use system variables and version attributes as formula inputs.
Indicator for Unconfigured Models in Line Item Grid
As part of integrations, models can be added to a transaction that may require further configuration changes via reconfiguration to complete the configuration and get the transaction pricing and etc, these models are called unconfigured models.
Beginning in Oracle CPQ 21C, the Transaction UI Line Item Grid displays an indicator for all the unconfigured models added to the transaction. The Unconfigured Model indicator visually communicates to the user model line items that are not configured.
New System Revenue Items for Commerce Main and Sub-documents
Oracle CPQ 21C introduces the Revenue Category system attribute for Commerce main documents. On Commerce sub-documents, CPQ introduces a new platform-level Revenue Attribute Set that contains two system attributes: Revenue Category and Revenue ID.
The following Oracle CPQ Administration feature was initially released in Oracle CPQ 21B Patch 3 and is available in Oracle CPQ 21C.
Support for Pagination of User Login History
Administrators can set a pagination option for the Login History. With the Login History pagination feature, a subset of user history will be loaded on the page when the page is accessed. This decreases the initial load time of the page and allows the user to page through the login history to access the information.
The following licensing metric feature is available in Oracle CPQ 21C.
Support for Improved eCommerce Interaction Licensing
Oracle CPQ 21C supports a new “user” property in the access token that can be passed from any eCommerce application to Oracle CPQ. For a quick registration user, the "user" property and the access token created using the private key are validated against the uploaded public secure certificate to authenticate the user for CPQ access. Once authenticated, a quick registration user is seamlessly allowed access into the Oracle CPQ application and a CPQ interact license is assigned for their use during that login session. This feature enhances the quick registration user login procedure and better defines CPQ interact license consumption for quick registration users and guest users.
The following Price Engine feature is available in Oracle CPQ 21C.
Simple Conditions for Pricing Profiles
Oracle CPQ 21C introduces Simple Conditions for Percent, Amount, and Absolute Price type Pricing Profiles. Simple Conditions can be easily set up without the need for coding. Administrators can simply select the necessary condition attributes, select the appropriate comparison operator, and specify the values of the attributes for which the Pricing Profile is invoked.
The following Web Service features is available in Oracle CPQ 21C.
Beginning in Oracle CPQ 21C, a new v12 REST API expands Web Service support to provide administrators with easier access to licensing information as follows:
- Total number of API licenses available and the number of API licenses consumed within a specified date range.
- Total number of eCommerce interactions available and the number of eCommerce interactions consumed within a specified date range.
- Total number of internal licenses purchased and the number of enabled internal licenses.
- Total number of channel licenses purchased and the number of enabled channel licenses for a Partner Organization(s).
This REST call provides accurate and real-time licenses information to help administrators in decision making, usage tracking, and troubleshooting.