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titleList of useful terms
  • Magento Simple Product – a product that does not have Custom Options and is not of Variation Product Type in Magento.

  • Magento Variational Product – Magento Product Type that allows working with variations (includes Grouped Product, Configurable Product, Bundle Product, and Simple Product with Custom Options).

  • Magento Variational Product with Selected Variation – Magento Variational Product with reference to the certain Variation (a combination of Attributes and Options, e.g., attribute – Color, option – Black).

  • Amazon Individual Product – a product that does not have variations and is not a variation of any Parent Product on Amazon.

  • Amazon Variational Product – a relation between Parent Product and Child Product(s) on Amazon that allows varying by one or more characteristics (attributes).

  • Amazon Parent Product – a container that connects a set of Child Products (cannot be purchased).

  • Amazon Child Product – a physical product that is a certain variant of the Parent Product on the basis of certain Attribute values, e.g., Color Black (can be purchased).

  • Attribute – a characteristic by which a Variational Product varies (e.g., size, color, etc.).

  • Option – a certain value of the Attribute (e.g., Red T-Shirt, Green T-Shirt, etc.).

Now let’s take a closer look at the logic of Variational Products on Amazon.

Basics

Amazon is renowned for its Catalog structure where a particular product has a single instance (product detail page) with multiple listings (offers from sellers) for it.

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