Product Families and Product Variants

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A product family is a product that contains product variants. A product family is not distinct from a product in any other way.

In the previous figure, Ace Soccer Shirt is a product family that includes the same type of shirt in all combinations of available colors and sizes. Each combination of type, size, and color is a product variant. A size Large, green shirt with the SKU 114 is one product variant of the Soccer Shirt product; taken together, size, color, and SKU form one variant.

A product family always includes a unique identifier, such as the product name.

A product variant always includes a unique identifier, such as the SKU, and it includes a price. Each product variant is based on the same product definition.

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