Product identifier
Understand the product identifier.
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Commerce API references
Understand the product identifier.
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A product identifier is the client's unique stock keeping unit (SKU) for a product. A product's unique identifier is represented by an id. The product identifier value (productID or PID) is the identifier associated with a product.
When you create a product programmatically or through , Digital River automatically assigns a product identifieDigital River assigns a product identifier when.
The productId or PID variable can be one of the following values: an , , or product identifier. If you want to use your company's internal product identifiers, see for instructions.
You can use a product identifier to search for a product or add a product to a cart. The following examples demonstrate how you can use the product identifier (id) with the product-related resource. If you want to use your company's internal product identifiers, see for instructions.
The following request gets a product by its product identifier of 64578500.
Using the externalReferenceId query parameter, the following request example adds a product to a cart.
A successful request with this particular API results in a 302 redirect to a Digital River-hosted guest checkout page.
In a typical anonymous customer workflow, you can add products to a cart by external reference identifier, making a single POST call with a payload to the resource. The following payload (request entity) adds a product with the idof 64578500, with a quantity of 2, to a cart.