Understand product data
How product information management works, what the data model is made of, and why the same product can have different answers in different shops.
Three concepts explain almost everything else in this area. Give them twenty minutes before you create your first attribute. The data model is the one decision in a catalog project that is expensive to change later, and these three pages are what make it a decision rather than an accident.
- How product information management works — why a PIM exists, and what breaks without one.
- The catalog data model — attributes, families, variants and categories, and how they fit together.
- Channels, locales and completeness — the same product, different answers per shop and per language.