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Classification of Catalog Entries



Products: A group of items that exhibit the same attributes.A product cannot be purchased

Items (SKUs): An item is a unit of merchandise, which can be purchased. Items related to a particular product exhibit the same set of attributes and are distinguished by their attribute values.

Bundles: A collection of catalog entries to allow customers to buy multiple items at once.
It can be a grouping of items, or a combination of products, items, and fully resolved packages. When a bundle is decomposed, its component items are added to a shopping cart, which can be updated or deleted independently.

Packages (Prebuilt kit): An atomic collection of catalog entries that cannot be sold separately. It cannot be decomposed or modified after adding to a shopping cart. It is an actual orderable SKU and has its own price.

Dynamic kits: It can be dynamically configured by the customer.based on the customer's requirements and is sold as a single unit. The components are controlled by an external product configurator through a set of predefined rules and user interaction, and supplied during add to cart. Once added to cart it cannot be decomposed and has to be purchased as a single item. The componenets of a dynamic kit can be changed by reconfiguring it as a whole using an external product configurator. 



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Static kits: A group of products that are ordered as a unit. The information about the products contained in a static kit is predefined and controlled within WebSphere Commerce. The individual components within the order cannot be modified and must be fulfilled together. A static kit will backorder if any of its components are unavailable. A static kit is first created as a package, then configured by an administrator.

Product sets: These are associated with published catalog entries. A product set provides a mechanism to partition the catalog into logical subsets. This partitioning allows us to show different parts of the catalog to different users. A contract can be created and we can specify that the participants of the contract are only entitled to purchase products that fall into a predefined product set. WebSphere Commerce provides tools to create and manage contracts and entitlement filtering rules on the master catalog.

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