How iPaaS.com Thinks About Product Options & Option Values
Options are the dimensions along which a product varies - Color, Size, Material. Option Values are the available choices on each dimension - Red and Blue; S, M, and L. Other systems call these Options, Attributes, Variant Options, Specifications, or Choices.
Together they define the variation matrix. Product-level options declare what's possible ("this product comes in Color and Size"); each variant is then assigned the specific values that identify it ("the Red / Large one"). iPaaS.com keeps this as an explicit structure - product options, their values, and the values assigned to each variant - so any connected system can faithfully rebuild the matrix. Storefronts render option pickers from it; ERPs derive their SKU grids from it.
iPaaS.com transfers the options at the variant level and not independently for greater flexibility across multiple types of systems.
The common translation: many source systems flatten options onto the variant as plain fields (color: "Red", size: "L"). When bringing that data into iPaaS.com, the integration reconstructs the structured Option and Option Value records from those flat fields. Worth planning for when scoping an integration.
Related concepts: Product, Product Variant.
