If Oracle ATG Web Commerce is not your usual tool for creating
and maintaining promotions, you will need to import promotions
you create in your external system into Commerce for pricing
purposes. Commerce includes an API that allows you to build
custom code for this purpose.  If you are using promotions
templates, importing promotions is as simple as specifying which
template to use and the placeholder values. If you are not using
templates, you must first build the PMDL for your promotions.
You can import promotions on either a production instance or an
asset management instance. If the latter, the import
automatically takes the form of a Content Administration
project. This topic is addressed in the Configuring the
PromotionImportWorkflowAutomator Component section. Note that
the import does not bring along promotion sub-assets such as
closeness qualifiers.  If you are using Commerce to create and
maintain promotions, but need to access them in a third-party
system, you can export your promotions using a