The following provides best practices for setting up your products:
Use Base Products
A powerful way to manage multiple products with similar characteristics is to use base products. Base products minimize catalog maintenance and provide data consistency.
A base product contains data that is passed down to its child products. Changes made to a base product are automatically inherited by its child products. This means you make a change once and that change also applies to all child products.
Example
Shieldware, Inc., sells anti-virus software for personal and professional use. Their product Internet Security is sold in four versions:
- Basic
- Basic Extended
- Professional
- Enterprise
The four versions have similar characteristics and information, with slight variations. A base product called Internet Security is set up with the basic information that applies to all four versions of the product. The four child products inherit this information from the base product.
Use One Product for Multiple Languages
It’s possible that you have products that you want to provide descriptions for in multiple languages. Previously, you might have set up that product by entering it once for each language, such as:
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