Sales
A sale represents a single line item (row) in a transaction with a customer.
A transaction is created within Custobar by combining all the information in the sale rows having the same sale_external_id
. Each sale row holds information about the bought product, quantity and sale price.
The transaction-level information (e.g. the customer made the purchase) is supplied with one or multiple sale rows in addition to its product information.
Transaction-level fields
Transaction-level fields apply to the entire purchase regardless of which sale row the information was supplied, the transaction-level fields are prefixed with sale_
.
Mandatory fields
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
sale_external_id | string | Your unique identifier for the entire transaction which includes all the sale rows. Must be included in all sale rows. |
sale_date | datetime | Date of the sale, e.g. 2017-08-28 or 2017-08-28T14:10:00Z. If the timezone is not given, the timezone will be defaulted to the timezone configured in the Custobar’s settings. |
The customer making the transaction is identified by supplying at least one of the customer identifying fields external_id
, phone_number
or email
. These fields should be prefixed too, thus email
becoming sale_email
, etc.
Customer field | Sale field |
---|---|
external_id | sale_customer_id |
phone_number | sale_phone_number |
sale_email |
Optional fields
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
sale_currency | string | The currency, in which the sale was made. Must be defined together with sale_exchange_rage. |
sale_discount | money | Discount that applies to the purchase as a whole, e.g. a discount of 5.00 € should be passed as 500. |
sale_exchange_rate | number | Exchange rate from the sale_currency to default currency in Custobar. Must be defined together with sale_currency. |
sale_payment_method | string | Your identifier of the payment method used. |
sale_shipping | money | The added shipping cost in cents. |
sale_shipping_method | string | The added shipping method. |
sale_shipping_in_currency | money | The added shipping cost in cents. sale_shipping_in_currency can be defined instead of sale_shipping when sale_currency and sale_exchange_rate have been defined. |
sale_shop_id | string | external_id of a shop where the purchase was made. |
sale_state | string | A sale state, one of “NEW”, “PENDING_PAYMENT”, “PROCESSING”, “COMPLETE”, “CANCELLED”, “CLOSED” or “HOLDED”. Sales in special states “CANCELLED” or “CLOSED” are not included in the statistics. If omitted, the sale is treated as “COMPLETE”. |
sale_total | money | The total price of the transaction in cents, e.g. 950.00 € should be passed as 95000. If sale_total field is missing, sale total is calculated as sum(sale row total fields) - sale_discount. |
tags | [set][] of string | Tags assigned for this Sale. |
Sale-row-level fields
Mandatory fields
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
external_id | string | Your unique identifier of sale row. |
product_id | string | external_id of a product sold. |
quantity | number | Quantity of the product sold. Supplying double value is supported, but it is rounded to precision of two decimal places using the normal rounding rules, e.g. a value of 0.003 will become 0.00. |
unit_price | money | The price of a one unit in cents. Unit price of 1795.00 € should be passed as 179500. The unit price is a price of a single item, before discount has been applied. |
Optional fields
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
discount | money | A discount of 0.50 € should be passed as 50. Both the positive and negative value is calculated towards a discount. |
total | money | The total price of sale row in cents. |
unit_price_in_currency | money | If the sale_currency is defined, the price may be given in that currency, instead of unit_price. |
tags | [set][] of string | Tags assigned for this Sale-row. |
If total
field is not supplied, the value of a sale row is calculated as (unit_price * quantity) - discount
.
Company-specific fields
You may add additional fields, that are company specific by prefixing them with a company short name and a double underscore __
, e.g. COMPANY__pos_id
. The company specific fields apply to the entire transaction and are not sale row specific.
Company specific fields are searchable in the Custobar user interface.
Providing sales in currency other than the default currency
You may send sales in some other currency than the default currency defined in Custobar settings. To do so, you’ll need to send
- sale_currency - The currency in which the sale occurred.
- sale_exchange_rate - The exchange rate to the default currency. The formula is
unit_price_in_currency / sale_exchange_rate
= the price in the default Custobar currency. - unit_price_in_currency - The price of the sale row in
sale_currency
.
Canceled / Returned sales
While different ERP and eCommerce systems manage returns / canceled sales differently, our best practice is to mark the returned / canceled sales with the sale_state value CANCELED.
With this state, Custobar will not calculate the returned sale as a conversion and the revenue is removed from the aggregated total revenue.
Please note: This is the best practice for the case where the entire sale is canceled.
If only one sale row of the sale is canceled / returned, then you can update the price of that sale row to 0 and mark the sale row with the tags value CANCELED.
Example
To upload new sale, you may pass them to Custobar using a HTTP POST command, e.g.
curl -X POST -u USER -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @sales.json https://COMPANY.custobar.com/api/sales/upload/
The product objects must be provided as a list, wrapped into a JSON object, with a key sales
, as shown in the example below.
The example represents a single transaction with two sale order rows.
{
"sales": [
{
"sale_external_id": "1000",
"sale_customer_id": "A501",
"sale_date": "2017-12-01T13:11:23Z",
"sale_shop_id": "1",
"sale_discount": 0,
"sale_total": 5160,
"sale_payment_method": "Credit Card",
"external_id": "1000-1",
"product_id": "SKU0435",
"unit_price": 1200,
"quantity": 1,
"total": 1200,
"COMPANY__sales_person": "3"
},
{
"sale_external_id": "1000",
"external_id": "1000-2",
"product_id": "SKU3429",
"unit_price": 2080,
"quantity": 2,
"discount": 200,
"total": 3960
},
{
"sale_external_id": "5000",
"sale_exchange_rate": 1.112,
"sale_currency": "USD",
"external_id": "5000-2",
"product_id": "SKU3429",
"unit_price_in_currency": 2080,
"quantity": 2
}
]
}