Acquia Commerce Manager operates by using the same principles that are used by other commerce platforms. This documentation page describes the terminology you will encounter, and where you can find that related data in Acquia Commerce Manager.
For information about changing some of the specific configurations, see Acquia Commerce Manager configuration settings.
Products are stored as Drupal nodes using the Product content type. As nodes, these products often relate to single pages in your Drupal website, and are imported from your commerce solution.
A single product will relate to one or more SKUs or product variants. These are non-node entities in Drupal and contain information about a product, including the display price and product images. SKUs are related to Product Options, such as t-shirt size, and are stored as taxonomy terms in a Drupal taxonomy vocabulary called Product Options.
To display details about products, sign in to your Drupal website as an administrator, and then complete the following steps, based on the information you want to review:
The Product content type contains several default fields used for integration with your commerce solution, including the following:
You can add additional fields to the product content type as needed for your website.
To determine the stock availability of a product, Drupal needs to make a
call your commerce platform. This is then cached locally by Drupal for
each individual SKU, using Drupal’s cache mechanism (which relies on
Memcache). The cache lifetime in Drupal is proportional to the number of
items in stock—the more items there are, the longer the cache
lifetime. The multiplication factor is a configured element. In the case
of 0
items in stock, the cache lifetime is the same as when there is
1
item in stock.
Product SKUs are used to uniquely identify your products, and are imported from your commerce solution.
You can display additional fields from the form configuration user interface.
Product options are defined in your commerce solution, and are synchronized with Drupal.
Product categories are stored as a Taxonomy Vocabulary Product Category. This vocabulary supports a hierarchy.