Products and SKUs
Learn more about the standards related to products and SKUs
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Learn more about the standards related to products and SKUs
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The and in this section cover how to manage your products in the Digital River APIs.
On this page, the that you should use depends on the product data model you employ. For more information, refer to the:
section on the page
The integration checklist you should work from in this section depends on your .
Click any checklist item for more details on meeting the integration standard.
Product catalogs are often very large. To optimize performance, you should synch your products and SKUs on a timed schedule or using a similar trigger.
The product and SKU standards that apply to your integration depend on which of the above checklists you're using.
You should have a tool that manually imports and then allows you to periodically update your products in Digital River's system through the . Your platform's admin interface most likely already has a product management page. You can simply modify this page to perform .
These scheduled jobs should make as few calls to the as possible. Therefore, we suggest you use a delta to only update the attributes in a SKU that changed in its corresponding product. This prevents you from having to overwrite every SKU value each time you run a synchronization job.
If you're by referencing SKUs that don't belong to , then you should add the following attributes to the product schema in your commerce platform:
Similarly, regardless of whether or not you associate SKU groups with SKUs, if you're by referencing SKUs, you should also add the following attributes to your platform's product schema:
When you set these values in your admin interface, you can in Digital River's system.
Your product's identifier should match the in our system. It's important that these values are the same. This ensures that synchronization is possible and that the SKUs work properly during .
Before deployment, you should .
Before deployment, you should .
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