Product Selections
Manage individual assortments for multiple sales channels through Product Selections.
Composable Commerce offers Product Selections that let you manage your assortments or product catalogs for any of your sales channel, such as brand sites, regional shops, or brick-and-mortar stores.
The recommended workflow to use Product Selections is as follows:
Create Products and their Variants.
Create Product Selections.
Assign Products or Product Variants to a Product Selection.
Create a Store.
Assign the Product Selection to one or many Stores and activate it.
A maximum of 100 Product Selections can be configured for a Store.
If the default fields available for Product Selection configuration do not fit your business needs, Composable Commerce lets you extend the Product Selection model by use of the Custom Fields API. The Merchant Center provides support for such Custom Fields on Product Selection.
Add a Product Selection
Go to Products > Product Selection list and click Add Product Selection.
In the Add a Product Selection page, follow these steps:
In the General information section, follow these steps:
- In the Product Selection name, enter a name for the Product Selection.
- Optional: In the Product Selection key, enter a unique identifier that helps identify the Product Selection.
Optional: If a Custom Field is defined for the Product Selection, select it from the drop-down in the Custom fields section, and depending on the field type, enter or select the value for it.
Custom Fields are implemented using the Custom Fields API.
Click Save.
If no Product Selection is assigned to a Store or if an assigned Product Selection is not active, all Products are available on your storefront. To make the Products available on your storefront, the Product Selection must be assigned to a Store and activated.
Add a Product to a Product Selection
Go to Products > Product list and click the Product.
On the Product Selections tab, click Add Product to Product Selection and follow these steps:
In the Product Selection column, select the Product Selection to add the Product to.
Optional: Depending on your current and future assortment management plans, select any of the following options in the Product variant(s) column:
- All variants (default): adds all SKUs to the Product Selection, and automatically includes future SKUs added to the Product.
- Only the following variants: adds selected SKUs to the Product Selection, and prevents future SKUs added to the Product from being included automatically.
- All variants with SKU values except: adds all Product Variants to the Product Selection except the selected SKUs, and automatically includes future SKUs added to the Product.
Click Save.
Bulk-assign Products to a Product Selection
Go to Products > Product list and select the Products, by their checkboxes.
Click the Actions drop-down and select Bulk assign products to product selections.
In the Assign products to product selections page, follow these steps:
From the Product Selection drop-down, select a Product Selection.
For the selected Product Variants, select any of the following options depending on your current and future assortment management plans:
- All variants (default): adds all SKUs to the Product Selection, and automatically includes future SKUs added to the Product.
- Only the following variants: adds selected SKUs to the Product Selection, and prevents future SKUs added to the Product from being included automatically.
- All variants with SKU values except: adds all Product Variants to the Product Selection except the selected SKUs, and automatically includes future SKUs added to the Product.
A Product can be assigned to a Product Selection only once. If the selected Product is already assigned to the selected Product Selection, the Product variant(s) column displays the previous assortment during bulk-assignment to check and update the assortment accordingly.
If the Product Selection is active in a Store, the associated storefront is automatically updated on saving the updated Product Selection.
Click Next.
In the Confirm bulk assignments dialog, click Assign products.
The process cannot be paused. To manage the assignment, see Manage Products in a Product Selection.
Assign a Product Selection to a Store
A Product Selection can be assigned to one or many existing Stores. For more information on how to add a Store, see Stores.
To assign the Product Selection to a Store, follow these steps:
Go to Settings > Project settings > Stores and select the Store.
In the Store settings section on the Store's page, select the Product Selection from the Product Selections drop-down.
To link the Product Selection to the Store, click the Status toggle for the respective Product Selection.
For the changes to take effect on the Store, you must save the changes. In the Activate Product Selection dialog, click Understood to confirm.
Click Save store and in the Update store dialog, click Confirm.
On saving, all Products in the Product Selection are immediately available on your storefront.Updating a Store configuration may invalidate existing carts on your storefront.
Manage Products in a Product Selection
Go to Products > Product Selection list and select the Product Selection.
On the Products tab, click Edit list of variants included from this product for the Product to manage.
You will be redirected to the Product Selections tab of the respective Product.To manage the Product Variants, click the edit icon and select any of the following options depending on your current and future assortment management plans:
- All variants (default): adds all SKUs to the Product Selection, and automatically includes future SKUs added to the Product.
- Only the following variants: adds selected SKUs to the Product Selection, and prevents future SKUs added to the Product from being included automatically.
- All variants with SKU values except: adds all Product Variants to the Product Selection except the selected SKUs, and automatically includes future SKUs added to the Product.
To remove the Product from the Product selection, click the delete icon.
Click Save.
Delete a Product Selection
- Go to Products > Product Selection list, select the Product Selection and click Delete Product Selection.
- In the Delete Product Selection dialog, click Delete Product Selection.