[TYPO3-commerce] Categories/Products/Articles - trying to understand the logic

[Morten Olesen]

Hi Christophe,

In short articles are variations of a product, they could easily be 
products on their own - but often they have so much in common that it 
makes sense to group them together.

For instance you could sell

Red Shirt ( Product )
	Red Shirt ( Article )
Blue Shirt ( Product )
	Blue Shirt ( Article )

or

Shirt ( Product - with attribute "color" )
	Red ( Article )
	Blue ( Article )



Note a product must have one article even of there are no variations - 
this is due to the way commerce is designed ( prices belongs to articles ).

Hope this clears it up :)

/Morten Olesen


Christophe Stadler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I 'm not sure i understand how i should structure my commerce categories.
> Here is what i want to do:
> 
> I sell 2 categories of products: hosting packages and domain names
> Each category has several variations: there is a light, medium, pro package
> in the hosting category and in the domains there are .com, .eu. Org etc
> 
> Here is how my tree in commerce looks like:
> 
> Category
> - System
> |--Product Catalog
> |----Hosting Plans
> |------Light
> |------Medium
> |------Pro
> |----Domain Names
> |------.com
> |------.de
> |------.eu
> |----Payment
> |------invoice
> |------creditcard
> |----Delivery
> |------sysdelivery
> 
> Is this the correct setup ? Do i need the 'articles' or could i just work
> with categories and products ? I'm not sure i understand the distinction
> between Products and Articles ....
> 
> What i also don't understand is why PAYMENT and DELIVERY appear as Products
> (the red-dot icon) ... Is this normal ? This is from the default install.
> 
> Thx for any help
> 
> Chris
>