2026-03-09: Product Service - Related product validation improvement

Overview

We've made product related items more flexible so your teams can prepare cross-sells, accessories, and other relations even before all products exist in the catalog, while keeping control over data quality and system stability.

New features

Feature	Benefit
Flexible creation of product related items	Enables more flexible catalog workflows where relations can be prepared in advance and products added later, reducing sequencing constraints for catalog and integration teams.
Configurable Relation Types in MD	Makes it easier for admins to configure and maintain related item behavior directly in the UI and ensures a robust experience when working with partially prepared product relations.
Configurable related item validation controls	Gives tenants fine-grained control over validation behavior to match their data processes, while keeping strict validation as the default to protect data integrity.

Fixes and improvements

None as this is a new feature.

Known problems

No known problems at time of release.

Documentation and links

• System Preferences