Elastic Path Commerce for AWS Setup
Core Commerce Architecture
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Elastic Path Production Tools
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Cortex Studio
Search Terms and Conventions
Search Terms and Conventions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Product | A collective group of SKUs or variants available for shoppers to view. Each product or product bundle is represented as an offer in Cortex. For example, a shirt is a product, and each SKU option, such as red, , blue, or white in color, in shirt has an associated SKU. |
| Offer | A collection of tangible or non-tangible entities for sale in store. Each offer has an offer code, availability, price, and list of constituents. An offer represents a product or product bundle defined in Commerce Manager. For example, shirts is an offer that consists of shirts in different colors, sizes, or fabric. |
| Item | A purchasable entity, such as shirt, movie, song, or subscription. An offer consists of items corresponding to each SKU associated with the offer. For example , the SKU, SHIRT-SM-RD, might correspond to a small, red shirt. A SKU and corresponding item represent the same purchasable entity in Commerce Manager and Cortex respectively. |
| SKU | A Stock Keeping Unit is a number or code assigned to an exact variant of a product in the store. A SKU corresponds a purchasable entity, such as shirt, movie, song, or subscription. For example, for the small, red shirt, the SKU might be SHIRT-SM-RD. |
| SKU options | A variant of SKU used to identify its association within a product, such as style, color, size, or format. For example, for shirt corresponding to the SKU SHIRT-SM-RD in each brand corresponds to a SKU option. |
| Facet | The arrangement of search results into categories based on the indexed terms. For example, size, brand, or color. |
| Facet value | The name of each value in a facet category. For example, for the size facet, the facet values are small, medium, or large. |
| List price | The price at which the manufacturer recommends that the store sell the product. For example, shirt list price might be $20-$60. |
| Sale or purchase price | The price at which a shopper can buy an item. This price might or might not be same as the list price. For the list price $20-$60, the sale price might be $10-$40. |