Client Settings

The client settings tab has many of the specific settings that change the behaviour of the client setup in Norce. Changes to these setting might have large consequences.

Products

These settings determine how functionality on the products work in Norce.

Setting	Description	Notes
Size unit	What size unit to display in admin	Default value is `cm`
Weight unit	What weight unit to display in admin	Default value is `kg`
Product texts are variant unique	Determine if the built-in text fields (description, header, etc) should be variant specific or shared between all variants (on product level)	Default is `false`
Manual partno when creating product	Allows the user to define the part number manualy when creating a product in the UI	Default `false`
When PricelistSeed is used in Norce API, disregard public price lists	This makes it possible to more granulary control what price is calculated in the front-end. Good when you have many different segments of customers in the same application. See more here (todo)	Default is `false`
Aggregate costs for virtual skus	Bundle products, like Managed structure can get an aggregated cost value, based on its included products	Default is `true`
Use on hand subtraction	Enables the reservation of onhand value functionality	Default is `true`
Product popularity by variant	Enables popularity rank calculation for each variant in a product.	Default is `false`
Product popularity by application	Enables separate popularity calculation for each application	Default is `false`
Request product translations	Shows a new button on the product page that triggers the event `TranslationRequestedNotification`, used for integration with translation services	Default is `false`
Assortment above one million skus	Improving performance of the admin UI, disables product sorting and counting, when listing products	Default is `false`, recommended for clients with lots of products.
Get recommended price from supplier	For clients who use supplier catalogs, this enables an automatic update of the recommended price value from the chosen supplier	Default is `false`
Update product measurements from supplier	For clients who use supplier catalogs, this enables automatic update of dimensional data to the logistics attributes on the product	Default is `false`
Use delta tables	Enable logging of lastmodified information on the products, this is used to create delta exports with channel service, read about it here.	Default is `false`

Sku Status automation

These settings determine what automatic status changes that are active in Norce. Read more about status rules here.

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Set sku status expiring to inactive when out of supplier stock	Changes the behaviour of the inactivation of the product, used for supplier stock sales	Default is `false`
Set sku status to hidden when out of stock	Enable this to make temporary out-of-stock products hidden instead of having them active and showing	Default is `false`
Set sku status to hidden when no image	Enable this as a validation safeguard, to prevent bad SEO on unfinished products	Default is `false`
Set sku status coming to active when in stock	Enable this if products should be automatically sellable, when they are in your own stock	Default is `false`
Manual sku status changes	Disable all automations on product status. Use this if you want to manually maintain product status or if statuses are handled outside Norce and updated by an integration.	Default is `false`

Population

These settings determine what the requirements are when populating new products from supplier products.

When automatically created products from supplier data the supplier sku and product is matched by either manufacturer part numbers or EAN codes, there are some validations than might be needed, if the supplier might have some bad data.

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Require manufacturer code	No product is created if there is no manufacturer code provided on the supplier sku	Default is `false`
Require category code	No product is created if there is no category code provided on the supplier sku	Default is `false`
Require EAN length seed	The character length of the EAN code must at least be this number	Default is `null` (no validation of EAN), otherwise `13` is the common value
Require unique EAN code	No product is created if there is no EAN code provided on the supplier sku	Default is `false`

Customers

These settings concern customer and company data. Read about GDPR settings here.

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Anonymize customers when inactivated (GDPR)	Activate the automatic anonymization of Customers according to the GDPR regulations	Default is `false`
Days before customer will be anonymized (GDPR)	If the setting above is set to `true`, add number of days until the anonymization should take place.	Default is `null`, common value is `90` days
Customers by application(*)	Enable this to allow for same customer (email) or company (vatno) to exists as separate entities in each application. Note that the the Customer and Company identifiers (code) must still be unique within the whole Client.	Default is `false`

(*) This is a setting that might have unintentional problems when changed. Contact Norce with a change request for this.

Orders

This setting concerns shopping and order setups.

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Allow confirmed order to be resent	Enables a button (under tools) on the order page, that lets you resend the order to the receiving integration (ERP), even if the order already has the status `Confirmed`	Default is `false`

Competitive pricing

This setting concerns competitive pricing setups.

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Competitors by application	Enables separate competitor data sets for the client's different applications. This is common when the applications are market specific and the competitors are as well.	Default is `false`

ERP integration

Settings regarding order integration and other erp integrations (which are mostly legacy functionality).

Read about order integration here.

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Erp endpoint type	Enable which protocol the order request should be posted with. `No integration` is not posted at all, the order is directly set to `Confirmed`	Allowed values: `No integration`, `SOAP`, `REST`, and `Rest (legacy)`, Default is `No integration` (Do not use `Rest (legacy)`, only exists for backward compatibility and will be removed)
Erp content type	Enable the format of the order request that is posted.	Allowed values: `JSON`, `XML`. `JSON` is recommended.
Erp endpoint url	Set up the url, that the order requests should be posted to	Default is `empty`, required for all endpoints except `No integration`
Erp account id	System account id used by the erp-integration	Not required. Not used anymore.
Erp endpoint username	Basic authentication username	When username and password is provided, basic authentication is used in the posting of the orders. Required for Production environments.
Erp endpoint password	Basic authentication password	When username and password is provided, basic authentication is used in the posting of the orders. Required for Production environments.
Erp name length	Character length allowed for the ERP Name field. Norce will truncate the field.	Default is `empty`
Add manufacturer to Erp name	When importing products, this enables an automated prefix of the manufacturer name.	Default is `false`
Send product data to Erp	Old flag for enabling ERP integration from Norce	Not used anymore
Create client product sku in Erp	Old flag for enabling ERP integration from Norce	Not used anymore

Other

Setting	Description	Recommendation
Image url	Hostname of the cdn service created specifically for the client, where the images and files are cached. Usually of the format `https://[clientname].cdn.storm.io/`	Same as CDN Address on Client tab.
Html settings	Change the settings for the text editor. See below.	Default is Norce preferred settings.

Html text editor

Norce uses TinyMCE as HTML editor in the Admin, where texts or html are edited. It is allowed to change the configuration of the editor, so that the client gets the most out of the tool.

Read about the tool here: TinyMCE v4 configuration

The default configuration:


{
    "height": 150,
    "menubar": false,
    "statusbar": false,
    "schema": "html5",
    "entity_encoding": "raw",
    "browser_spellcheck": true,
    "contextmenu": false,
    "paste_data_images": false,
    "image_advtab": true,
    "forced_root_block": "",
    "force_br_newlines": true,
    "force_p_newlines": false,
    "paste_as_text": false,
    "plugins": "autolink code fullscreen image link paste textpattern searchreplace imagetools lists advlist",
    "toolbar": "insertfile undo redo | styleselect | bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | link image | removeformat code fullscreen"
}