Products

There is quite a lot to cover on products in Daalder. Below are some of the basics that are good to know.

Setting up a structure

Before starting to add products it's a good idea to define an initial structure for your products.

Primary:

Product attribute sets

A group of products that have the same attributes
For example: T-shirts, Jeans, Shoes, etc.

Attributes

Individual quality or characteristic ascribed to a product
For example: size, color or material

Attribute options

The possible values of an attribute
For example: if size has a specific set of possible values (Small, Medium, Large, etc.), every one of these values would be an attribute option.
Attribute options are only needed if the attribute can be defined this way. Price, for example, cannot reasonably be defined as a set of possible values when working with a large number of products. Price would be a free field, accepting a string or int types as values.

Putting the above mentioned together, you should make a list of attribute sets, all the attributes in every set, and the possible values of those attributes (if the attribute is not a free field)

Secondary:

Attribute groups

• If you want to display height, weight and depth attributes in a group called dimensions, for example, then dimensions is an an attribute group.

Types

In Daalder there are currently 2 types of products.

Simple

This is the default product type and suitable for most needs.

Wizard

A wizard type product is used when a customer needs a custom configuration of products, and accordingly walk through configuration steps to combine different products.

State

Daalder ships with three fixed product states by default:

• Concept
• Published
• Hidden

You can, of course, extend Daalder to add more product states.

Pricing

Daalder has support for:

• Multi currency (different prices in different currencies for a single product).
• Customer specific pricing.
• Customer group specific pricing.
• Bulk pricing.

Product prices are presented by the Daalder API in the following format:

"prices": [
    {
        "price": "47499.00",
        "price_excluding_vat": "37999.20",
        "currency": "kr",
        "min_order_amount": 1,
        "vat_rate_percentage": 25,
        "type": "default"
    }
],

API calls

Endpoint: /products

{
    sku*: string(4-45),
    name*: string(250),
    ean: nullable|digits(13),
    is_visible: boolean,
    status: boolean,
    url,
    profit: num,
    product_type_id*: from a selection of possible types,
    productattributeset_id*: int|(productattributeset/id)**,
    brand: (brand/id)**,
    exclude_bol_export: boolean,
    include_scraped_price: boolean,
    is_visible_overview: boolean,
    price*: digits with (1-4) digits after (.,),
    list_price: nullable|same validation as price,
    specialprice: same validation as price,
    purchase: same validation as price,
    bulkprice: same validation as price,
    purchasepricebulk: same validation as price,
    brutodropshipprice: same validation as price,
    deliverydropshipnl: same validation as price,
    deliverydropshipbe: same validation as price,
    media: [{
        int|(media/id)**
    }]
}

{
    sku: string(4-45),
    name: string(250),
    ean: nullable|digits(13),
    type: string,
    price: digits with (1-4) digits after (.,),
    list_price: nullable|same validation as price,
    profit: num,
    description: string,
    url: string,
    productattributeset_id: int|(productattributeset/id)**,
    group_id: int"(groups/id)**,
    meta_description: string,
    meta_keyword: string,
    meta_title: string,
    search_aliases: string,
    is_visible: boolean,
    include_scraped_price: boolean,
    exclude_bol_export: boolean,
    is_visible_overview: boolean,
    weight: int,
    brand: (brand/id)**,
    shipping_time_id: int|(shipping_times/id)**,
    shipping_tier_id: int|(shipping_tiers/id)**,
}