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Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 9 has the Promotions feature OOTB, which enables you  to create and manage promotions via the BizFx site. [This resource](https://doc.sitecore.com/users/93/sitecore-experience-commerce/en/work-with-promotions.html) explains how to work with promotions in detail.

When I worked with promotions last time, I had a weird situation, which looked like a bug. What I did is I created a new promotion, added qualifications and benefits. I would like to highlight that I didn’t create public or private coupons and I didn’t approve the promotion, it was saved as a draft. Then I added several products to the cart, applied the promo, and...I got a discount. Just to remind you, I didn’t approve the promotion yet. Then why did I get a promotion discount?

After some research, I found this in the XC documentation:

*However, you can test a promotion in your authoring environment before you send it through the approval process.*

Usually, if you work with XC, you have an on-premises installation of it with a default Storefront site. Based on the default configuration, Sitecore Experience Platform is configured to communicate with XC in *CommerceAuthoring* role. This configuration located in *sxa.storefront.com\App\_Config\Include\Y.Commerce.Engine\Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.config*

![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/images/blog/sitecore-commerce-engine-connect-config.png)

![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/images/blog/commerce-authoring-sc9-home.png)

In a standard installation it points to *CommerceAuthoring* role. It means that the Commerce Engine would likely retrieve the data directly from the database to provide the most recent information. You can find more info about the Commerce Engine environments [here](https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/93/sitecore-experience-commerce/en/commerce-engine-environments.html).

After that, I tried to re-configure XP to communicate with *CommerceShops* role and checked cart again. A promotion discount was not applied and this is what I expected initially. But why does it work for *CommerceShops*, but doesn't work for *CommerceAuthoring*?

Now, the answer is simple. *CommerceAuthoring* and *CommerceShops* environments have *GlobalPromotionsPolicy*:

![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/images/blog/json-diff-promotion-discount.png)

You can re-configure and set the value of *PromotionsRequireApproval* as “true” in the *CommerceAuthoring* role. Then, run a Bootstrap request via Postman to apply the changes in the XC configuration.

I hope someone who has the same issue finds this useful.

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Andrei Paliakou
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