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Overview: Products and departments

Creating, organizing, and managing the product catalog of your webstore is one of the major activities you do with the help of Sitefinity CMS Ecommerce module.

You create a list with all the products you offer on your site, along with their properties and additional characteristics and attributes. You also create different product types, which are useful because they have different fields. For example, a book has an author, but a kitchen appliance does not.

In addition, you can create product variations when your product has different attributes. For example, if a product is available in more than one size and color, you need to create variations of the product for all available sizes and colors. Different variations can have different prices and different stock keeping units.

You can structure your webstore hierarchically with departments and thus facilitate your customers in finding what they need. You can also create tags to make searching and filtering products even easier.

Last, but not least, you can track and manage the stock of every product, including its variations, and view report about the current inventory of your store.

This section contains:
  • Products
    On the Products page, you can see a list of all created products together with actions you can perform. Use this page to create, edit, and manage products.
  • Product types
    Use this section to create different product types. Different types are useful because they have different fields. For example, a book has an author, but a kitchen appliance does not.
  • Product attributes
    Product attributes are additional characteristics of a product. For example product attributes can be size and color.
  • Product variations
    Create product variations when your product has different attributes. Different variations can have different prices and different stock keeping units
  • Departments
    You use departments to structure your online store and facilitate your customers in finding what they need. You use departments when you need to create a hierarchical structure of your store.
  • Filter products by departments and tags
    You use departments to create a hierarchical structure of your store and you use tags when you want to filter products. First, you create the departments and tags, then you add them to products.
  • Inventory
    You can track and manage the stock of every product, including its variations, and view report about the current inventory of your store.
  • For developers: Localize products
    If you have a multiple language site, you can display products differently in different language versions. You can localize each product by specifying a culture-specific value for each of the localizable properties of the Product class.

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