Salesforce B2C Commerce 24.7 > Merchandising Your Site > Catalogs, Categories, and Products

Products

Products are the items and services you sell. All of your product data is stored in your base product catalog. Your base product catalog can also be your storefront catalog or you can create a separate storefront catalog. You organize a catalog by categories. Categories can act as the storefront navigation to your products. For a product or service to show on your storefront, it must be assigned to a category. You can create any number of catalog, category, and product scenarios to address your business needs.

  • Product Types
    Product types include: standard product, base product, variation group, variation product, Product set, and product bundle.
  • Product Variation Types
    Most products are available in a variation of sizes or colors. Salesforce B2C Commerce uses product variations types to help you configure your storefront to show product variations.
  • Variation Slicing by Category
    If you have a variation product, it can appear in search results or landing pages using a single image or multiple images. Salesforce recommends using variation groups to show products in different categories. However, you can also show the same product differently in the keyword search results and in different categories, depending on the slicing rule used.
  • Managing Product Options, Product Bundles, and Product Sets
    You configure Product Options, Product Bundles, and Product Sets to groups products or products and variable options for sale on your storefront.
  • Product Search and Navigation in Business Manager
    Use the B2C Commerce product tools to manage which products are available on your storefront and how they show on your storefront. In B2C Commerce, products are defined in the context of a catalog. You can use the product search and navigation tools to locate products and navigate product lists. You can search for products using one of three options: Simple, Advanced, and By ID. To access the product search options, select Merchant Tools > Products and Catalogs > Products and click a search option tab.
  • Add, Modify, and Edit Products Manually
    Business Manager supports the manual addition, edit, and modification of products. Manually editing products Is a good option when you have a few products to update. Besides adding products manually you can also edit product details, modify product category assignments, and change product attribute assignments.
  • Manage Product Category Assignments
    For the product to be visible in the storefront, you assign the product to a category. The category is assigned to a catalog, and the catalog is assigned to a site.
  • Product Attributes
    Product attribute definitions specify the product attributes that appear in the storefront when the product is accessed through a category.
  • Show Orderable Products Only
    You can configure products so that only products that are available for order show in your storefront search results.
  • Link Products
    Use the Links tab in the Product Editor to create links between products. You can link from or to products.
  • Preview Products in the Storefront
    You can preview products and content before it appears in the storefront to ensure it appears as you want.
  • Product Grid View
    You can use the grid view to see how modifications to the display order of your product appear in your storefront.

Infocenter Retirement: On June 30, 2023, the Infocenter was retired, and documentation currently hosted on the Infocenter will be published to Salesforce Help, Commerce Cloud Developer Center, and Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Documentation Resources. For more information, see the release note.