Buyers Guide Mosaic

Preparing to load the Guide

Select Buyers Guide from the left navigation, under Administrator.
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Check or uncheck boxes according to what fields you want updated when the guide is updated.
Unless you know you want to Process Retail Price Changes do not check the box.

Note: Field updates will only happen to linked titles. Linked Titles are those that have been adopted from the Buyers Guide in to your system.

Field	Definition	Field	Definition

Field	Definition	Field	Definition
Adopt ISBN as 13 Digits	Check this box if you want books adopted from the guide to have 13 digit ISBN instead of 10.	Process Retail Price Changes	Check this box if you want retail prices of linked titles to change based on guide updates.
Other check boxes	Check those fields that you want updated from the guide on linked titles.	Do Price Decreases on BG load	If you check Process Retail Price Changes you can then check this box.
		Do Used Price on BG load	If you check Process Retail Price Changes you can then check this box.

Once filled in, the Host URL/Address, Host Port, Username, and File Name will still be there the next time you load a guide.
Each month you will receive an email with the Username and Password.
Enter username and password.
Select Load New Guide button.
Guide takes a few minutes to load, but you don’t have to stay in the Buyer’s Guide menu, you will receive a notification when it is finished.

Field	Definition

Field	Definition
Guide Source	The Buyer’s Guide supplier selected from the drop down menu.
Default Supplier Code	The supplier in Mosaic that corresponds to the Buyer’s Guide supplier.
Last Load Date	The date a file was last loaded. The date updates upon successful loading of a new buyer’s guide file.

First Published 04/09/2021

Edited 06/08/2023