Precalculate Prices for Customer

Precalculate prices for customer is a performance feature which is used to cache product prices for an anonymous customer assigned to a webshop. It allows to retrieve product prices for an anonymous webshop visitors much faster. This is a job that runs on a background and can be configured for a certain time.

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations click: Webshop > Periodic > Precalculate prices for customer.

The table below provides the description of the fields on the Parameters and Run in the background tabs.

Field	Description
Parameters tab
Name	Select the webshop.
Customer account	An anonymous customer account will be selected automatically when you select a webshop.
Run in the background tab
Batch processing	Use this option to enable or disable the batch job.
Task description	The Precalculate prices for customer task is used by default.
Batch group	Select the batch group to run the batch job as part of a batch group. Batch groups are used to group and run jobs on a specific batch server.
Private	A private job does not run automatically, and can be run only by the user who scheduled it.
Critical job	Configuring the batch job as critical ensures that the system actively tracks its status. When a critical job fails, the support team can better monitor failures and take actions to resolve any issues that may have caused the failure.
Monitoring category	Select the monitoring category.

Click Recurrence to specify how frequently the batch job for precalculating prices for a customer should run.

Click Alerts to set up alerts for the batch job.