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Product Catalog

Ensuring the right product data is shown on the right sales channels

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The Product Catalog manages product information across all your sales channels.

iPaaS.com Product Catalog Terminology

These terms may be defined differently in systems we integrate with.

  • Kit: When you sell 2 or more different products for one price. iPaaS.com defines these as Bill of Materials, Basic, or Add-on.

  • Bundle: When you sell a package of 2 or more of the same item for one price. Note: This is not supported natively in iPaaS.com, but there are ways to accommodate it.

  • Related Products: Products on an e-commerce platform that are shown on the product page or in checkout as related to the product to encourage cross-selling and upselling.

  • Type Options

    • Physical: A product that is shipped to you.

    • Virtual: A product that is delivered digitally.

    • Others have been added for integration-specific needs.

  • Tracking Method Options

    • Product: Track all inventory of a product regardless of variant. Track all t-shirts as one inventory.

    • Variant: Track inventory of a product at the variant level. Track small green t-shirts separate from large green t-shirts, separate from large red t-shirts, etc.

Working with Collections

A collection consists of a product or products.

Adding a Product

First, add the basic product information, then add optional information.

Optional Information

These sections go beyond the core record information and add additional, optional information to a product record.

Collections

Field

Categories

Key: Name of the collection

Units

Name: The name given to this unit value
Conversion: The number of individual items in the unit. Note that the conversion is about the primary/stocking unit.
Default Price: The unit default price
MSRP: Unit MSRP
Sale Price: The price the merchant is selling it for

Alternate IDs

Alternate IDs define product identifier types, such as barcodes or legacy model numbers. You can add, edit, or delete alternate IDs.

Type: Defined by Alternate ID data model records
SKU: The SKU for this alternate ID
Unit: The unit(s) in this alternate ID
Alternate ID: The alternate ID
Description: A description of this ID

Inventory

Location: As defined in the location data model (enabled by defining different warehouses)
Cost: Average purchase price (cost to merchant)
Qty on Hand: On hand available from connected systems
Qty Available: Quantity available from connected systems

Kit

Type: Type of kit as defined above
SKU: The SKU for that kit as a whole
Description: The description for the kit

Related Products

Add Related Product: Search for and select the product or variant
Related Type: How the product is related (options: Replacement, Similar Item, and Related Product)

Custom Fields

External IDs

Optional Information - Variant Products

These are only available if the Tracking Method is set to Variant.

These options (and their value collection) define the categories and options for product variants.

Variants define how variants are put together for a product (e.g., a green large shirt, a red small shirt). Variants have many similarities with core products, including many child records.

Collections

Field

Options

Name: Name of the variant
Values: Current values. (options Type, Description, and Order

Variants

Basic Variants Information

SKU: Product SKU
Barcode: Product barcode
MSRP: Product MSRP
Default Price: Product default price
Status: Is this variant preorder, active, disabled, or discontinued
Sale Price: The price when the product is on sale

Variant Dimensions

Width: Product width
Height: Product height
Depth: Product depth
Weight: Product weight

Variant Options Management Option Values.
The options tied to this variant (each name and value pair needs to be specified)

Name: Name of current variant options
Value: Values of current variant options
Delete: Delete this variant option from this product variant
Add: Open the modal to add an option value
Name: Name of variant to be added
Value: Value of variant to be added

To add a product:

  1. Click Data Management > Product Catalog.

  2. On the Product Catalog form, click Add Product.

  3. Click Add Product. In the New Product form, add details about the product.

    If Tracking Method is Variant, Kit Components are listed as a child of Kit collections.

  4. Click Apply if you are only adding core product record information.

  5. (Optional) You can add options for Categories, Units, Alternate IDs, Inventory, Kit, Related Products, Custom Fields, and External IDs.
    If your product is a variant, the Options and Variants options are also available.
    For fields and definitions, see Optional Information.
    Select the desired section, such as Categories, and click Add.

  6. In the section, select an item. For example, if you want to assign a category to a dog coat, select Apparel as the Key. Repeat for adding additional categories.

  7. Click Apply, and the additional product information is added.

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