# 2024-08-13: CE - External Price Calculation

### Overview

In B2B environments, pricing is often managed through external applications, primarily ERP systems, which store essential customer-specific pricing data. This approach offers significant benefits, including the integration of personalized pricing and third-party price calculations. The use of external applications provides flexibility across diverse integration scenarios, ensuring precise, customized pricing for each customer. This solution not only streamlines the pricing process but also significantly improves overall operational efficiency.

### New features

| Feature                                                   | Benefit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Overwriting list price with external price**            | It is possible to provide a price list until the customer requests a customer-specific price from an external pricing service. This allows the customer to see the price they are to pay, which increases customer loyalty.                                         |
| **Integrate external pricing including external product** | Facilitate the integration of external prices even when the product is not part of your ecommerce application. That increases your possibilities and flexibility as a merchant and also your customers can start the purchase process with items without any price. |
| **Customization of price strategy**                       | At the tenant level, select the price determination method to be used. To activate the external price determination, simply initiate the process with a single click within the Management Dashboard System Preferences.                                            |

### Fixes and improvements

Extend the cart service with a new external price determination strategy.

### Known problems

No known problems at time of release.

### Documentation and links

User Guides:

* [External Prices and Products](/ce/extensibility-and-integrations/extensibility-cases/external-pricing-and-products.md)
* [System Preferences](/ce/management-dashboard/settings/system-preferences.md)

API Reference:

* [Cart Service](/api-references/api-guides/checkout/cart.md)
* [Cart Service Tutorial](/api-references/api-guides/checkout/cart/cart.md)


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://developer.emporix.io/release-notes/archive/2024/2024-08-13-ce-external-prices.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.