Products

The concepts of products and product properties are the foundation of the Geins platform.

Product Concept

• Metadata
• Parameters and properties
• Price
• Variants
• Relations
• Bundles

Product

A product is a physical or digital item that you sell. You add and can configure products in the Merchant Center. You can also add products via the Management API.

Product Metadata

The metadata of a product is the most important part of a product. The Metadata is used to describe the product. The Metadata is used to create the product listings. The metadata is also used to create the product pages.

Parameters

A product has a set of parameters that describe the product. These parameters are called product parameters. You can add and configure product parameters in the Merchant Center. You can also add and updatade product properties via the Management API.

Tip

The product parameters are used to describe the product. For example, a product can have a color property with the value red. The product parameter can be used to filter products in the Product Catalog and in the launchpad.

Product Items

A product can have multiple product items. A product item is a specific product. For example, a product can be a T-shirt. A product item is a specific T-shirt or SKU. For example, a product item can be a T-shirt with diffrent sizes.

Tip

Create Product Items when you have a product with multiple options that does not affect the price. For example, a T-shirt with diffrent sizes.

Product Variants

This is a way of grouping products that has diffrent options that affect the price. For example, a USB Cord with diffrent lengths. You can add and configure product variants in the Merchant Center. You can also add and updatade product variants via the Management API.

Tip

Create variants when you collapse multiple product items into one product in product listings. For example, a USB Cord with diffrent lengths.

Product Relations

Relations between products. For example, a USB Cord can be related to a USB Charger.

Out of the box, Geins has 3 relation types:

• Related
• Accessory
• Similar

You can add and configure product relations in the Merchant Center. You can also add and update product relations via the Management API.

Product Packages

Product packages enables you to sell multiple products bundled together as one. You can choose to simply have a fixed set of products and sell those together, or you can allow the customer to make their own choices and build their own package based on your constraints.

You can configure a product package in the Merchant Center.

Tip

Create a package deal. For example, a computer with diffrent options storage. If sold together, the customer gets a discount.

Refrence table

Concept	Description
Product	Physical or digital item that you sell.
Product Parameter Group	Group is a group of product parameters.
Product parameter	Characteristic of a product. Metadata in short.
Product parameter value	Value of a product property.
Product Item	Specific product/sku with the same product properties and price.
Product Variant	Group of product items with diffrent options that affect the price.
Product Relation	Relation between products.
Product Package	Product packages enables you to sell multiple products bundled as one product.