Products, variations, inventory lists and price books
How B2C Commerce product types, catalogs, inventory lists and session price books decide what a shopper can find, buy and pay, and which inventory flag or Script API call changes each outcome.
Given a Business Manager task, work with the product data model to manage products and product search model, their categorization, and associated inventory and pricebooks.
~7 min read · 14 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Separate the product (master) catalog from the storefront catalog and say which products
ProductMgr.queryAllSiteProducts()returns for a site. - Predict whether a standard product, base product, variation group, variation product, product set or bundle can be bought, priced, promoted and found in search.
- Pick the inventory list or inventory record setting (default in-stock flag, perpetual, backorder allocation, Use Bundle Inventory Only) that produces a required availability, and read
ProductAvailabilityModelresults. - Explain how checkout reserves stock, what cancellation does to it, and how to add a custom inventory attribute.
- Control which price books a shopper's session uses with
PriceBookMgr.
Key terms: base product (the non-sellable product that represents all its variations); variation group (a subset of a base product's variants sharing a value such as one color); inventory list (holds one inventory record per product; one list per site); perpetual (an inventory record flag meaning always in stock); ATS (available to sell); applicable price books (the price books set in the user session for price lookup).
Key facts
- Detail
- Decided by the list's default in-stock flag
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- Expires if not finalized within 10 minutes
Order.setStatus()- Detail
- Doesn't change stock levels
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- Can't be purchased; orderable if online and one variant is orderable
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- Always the sum of its products; can't be set
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- Release in one import, assign in a later one
queryAllSiteProducts()- Detail
- SeekableIterator; call
close()if not fully read
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- Only the books set are used for lookup
- When does
getAvailabilityLevels()throw an exception? - Why can the product catalog stay unassigned from every site?
- Why does a variation group show a price range even when its base product has a price book entry?
- How often does the CleanupInventoryTransaction job run?
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