Products and SKUs
Learn more about the standards related to products and SKUs
The checklist items and standards in this section cover how to manage your products in the Digital River APIs.
On this page, the integration checklist that you should use depends on the product data model you employ. For more information, refer to the:
Sending product data in the checkouts section on the Describing line items page
Integration checklists
The integration checklist you should work from in this section depends on your product data model.
Click any checklist item for more details on meeting the integration standard.
SKUs only checklist
SKUs with SKU groups checklist
Product details with SKU groups checklist
Integration standards
Manually synchronize your catalog
Automatically synchronize your catalog
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.
Capture SKU attributes
If you're sending product data in checkouts by referencing SKUs that don't belong to SKU groups, 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 sending product data in checkouts 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 sync your products with their corresponding SKUs in Digital River's system.
Ensure product and SKU identifiers match
Your product's identifier should match the identifier of its corresponding SKU 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 checkouts.
Associate a SKU group with each SKU
Before deployment, you should associate a SKU group with each of your SKUs in our system.
Associate a SKU group with each product in your system
Before deployment, you should associate a SKU group with each product in your system.
API interfaces
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