This section describes the concepts of products.
Products are the central content object of LFS. These are provided for sale to the customer. Almost all relevant attributes of products are entered here, for instance the price, stock data, images and attachments. More details about all attributes can be found at product management interface reference.
There are three types of products: default products, configurable products and products with variants.
This is the plain default product of LFS and can be considered as the the base of all other product types, which are described in the following sections.
A configurable product is a product with several properties and options from which a customer can or has to choose. For instance the property Color and its option red, yellow and green. The selected options of all properties can change the total price of the product. This is calculated by the base price of the product plus all selected options of all provided product’s properties.
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A product with variants is a product from which the customer can choose out of an arbitrary amount of similar variants.
The most essential difference to a configurable product is, that every variant is a discrete product with own data, like the price or the article number - whereas the latter can be important for accounting.
Technical the product with variants consists out of two parts: the base and its variants.
The base can be considered as the parent of the variants. It can’t be sold to customers, but it serves as a container for the variants and provides default data, which can be inherited from the variants.
To create variants for a base global and local properties are used. Each variant belongs then to a unique combination of options from all properties.
This is a single variant of a product with variants. Variants can be offered for sale. By default the variants inherit all data from the base, but this data can be overwritten per variant and per field. This can be considered as the most essential difference to a configurable product. For example each variant can have an own price or an own article number. Latter can be important for accounting.
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