Setup: Product status automation
The Product status represents the life stage of the product. Norce has built-in rules and automations for letting the product catalog automatically handle some the the steps in a product life-cycle. You can disable these totally or change some the rules, depending on your requirements.
Required steps
- Set up a price list structure
- Set up an inventory structure
Preparations
Understand how the clients wants to handle their product catalog. In which systems are products "born"? And where is it decided to end a product's life?
How-to
Your decisions above decide on how you want to set up the integration of your products as a whole. Note that:
- You might need to change the Sku status automation settings, see below, if required.
- Set activation and deactivation of products, by using
StartDateandStopDateon the SKU element in Connect integrations (or manually in admin) - Manually lock specific product's status in the admin UI so that it wont change by automations.
Further configuration
Fiddle with the client settings, specifically
- Sku Status automation, which lets you change the default behaviour of the status automation.
Further reading
- Read about the Status rules here.
Where to go from here
- Product enrichment
- Migrate products