Products
The Product Service empowers you to efficiently manage rich, customizable product data, such as templates, bundles, variants, and media.
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The Product Service empowers you to efficiently manage rich, customizable product data, such as templates, bundles, variants, and media.
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Here you can find an overview of the Emporix Product Service, along with its features and benefits.
As part of our Catalog solution, Emporix provides you with a scalable product service that allows you to create and manage a vast collection of products along with rich product information and descriptive attributes. We want to ensure that you can offer the products on your website in the most efficient way and that you provide the best customer experience.
The Emporix API product service introduces a set of features that make product management easier:
Bulk product creation
With Emporix API, it is possible to create multiple products at once.
Customizable product configuration with product templates
Customizable product ID
Product bundles
Parent products and product variants
Media files
You can attach media files, such as images, video, and documents, to provide a rich product and catalog experience for your customers.
Easily configurable tax information for products using tax classes
When you configure the correct tax classes in the Emporix API Tax Service, product prices can be retrieved as net or gross, depending on the market the product is sold in.
Localization of product information
You can define product names and descriptions in different languages, based on your store's language configuration.
When you want to create a product, first you need to ensure that the available product attributes will be sufficient to properly represent the product's characteristics. The following sections describe the basic product features and how you can further customize your products in the Emporix e-commerce system.
Basic product is the most basic product template that contains the following information:
Product name
Product description
URL of the graphical representation of the product, such as an image or a video
If the above fields are not enough to properly describe a product, you can add your own attributes by creating product templates.
For example, a template for a T-shirt can contain the following additional parameters:
Size
Color
By default, product templates contain the basic product template fields as well.
For example:
A basic product that we applied a T-shirt template to contains the following fields:
Size
Color
Name
Description
Image URL
Product ID
Product ID is automatically generated when a product is created.
A basic product with a product template applied can itself constitute a product template that can be applied to other products. For example, a T-shirt product can be used as a template for a long-sleeved top and a sweatshirt.
If you want to create several instances of the same product that differ only in color, size, or any other specifications, you can create product variants.
To create a parent product, you need to perform the following steps:
Create or update an existing basic product.
Apply a template to the product.
Mark the product as parent.
Every parent product can have different variants, which are by default created upon the parent product's creation and/or update. The variants contain the same fields as the parent product, but the contents are different. The parent product's price is automatically inherited, if not specified otherwise. Each of the variants is automatically assigned with a Variant ID.
It is also possible to create product variants separately by overriding the default variant creation mechanism.
Product bundles serve as containers of two or more products that already exist in the system, allowing customers to buy those products together at a more attractive price. These bundles can have special descriptions, prices, and images.
For example, you can advertise a product bundle that contains a printer, toner, and a ream of paper. The products are sold separately as well, but when bought as a bundle, they are sold at a different price, which is more attractive to the customer.
You can link related products together to make it easier for customers to find them.
For example, customers want to find consumables and accessories related to the main product:
A power charger for a laptop
Ink for the chosen printer
With the Emporix Commerce Engine, you can add multiple images, video, and documents to enrich the shopping experience on your website. The documents that you can add may also provide a self-service capability to reduce the cost of sales by allowing your customers to access product manuals, safety data sheets, and PDF brochures at the click of a mouse.
You can create product templates that contain predefined schemas to specify additional attributes on top of the product features available by default. For more information, see .
You can add custom ID for each product you create. For details, see documentation.
You can decide to sell products together as bundles. For example, a washing machine with washing machine tablets. A product bundle can have its own price, description, and images. For more information, see the section.
Products of the same type can be sold in different variants. For example, they can differ in color, size, or fabric. Check out the section.