Policies
Policy versions
How a MAP change is recorded as an appended, effective-dated version; how the timeline is read; and what changing a policy does to open cases and evidence.
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A MAP policy is a timeline of versions. Each version says what the floor is from an instant; the next version ends it. Versions are never edited or deleted, so the policy that was in force on any past day can always be read back — and every evaluation names the version it used.
Appending a version
- Open the policy from Configuration › MAP policies and choose Append version.
- Enter the new MAP amount, the instant it is in force from, and the tolerance and treatment rules for the new version. Rules are set per version; a version that changes only the amount must still state them.
- Add a Note saying why — a price-list change, a new distributor agreement — and confirm. The note is part of the permanent history.
Reading the timeline
The policy page lists versions newest first, each with its floor, its rules, its in force from instant and, for every version but the latest, the instant the next one superseded it. An end version shows the policy stating nothing from its instant.
What a change does to open cases
A material change to the MAP while a breach period is open is recorded on that period’s timeline as policy version changed, with the versions before and after. Two things follow, and both are safety interlocks rather than housekeeping:
- External sending is blocked for the period until a fresh observation has been collected and evaluated under the new version. Without one, a notice would assert a breach of a policy nothing has been measured against.
- Renewed approval is required for the next notice. An approval given under the old version is an answer to a question that is no longer being asked.
The period does not close. Closing it because the brand changed its own policy would put a false cure in the seller’s history.
What a change does to evidence
Nothing. Evidence sealed under the previous version remains valid as a record of what happened and continues to verify. What it cannot do is authorize a future notice about the current policy — the notice page says so, in these words, when it applies. See Approval.