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Plan Your Product Catalog
With EPC, you can create an offering to sell to customers, such as an iPhone 11. Before creating an offering, you must create other entities, such as object types, attributes, and product specifications. You can then create bundled offerings and set pricing.
Before You Begin
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You must have at least one price book. You can create one generic price book and have multiple price lists that point to the same price book.
You must also use Product Console to update an older product that has layout facets other than General Properties. See Upgrade Existing Object Types for use in Product Designer.
You must create attributes to capture specifics about the product that needs to be tracked. Some attributes are options that might affect the product's price, such as storage capacity, while others might customize an offering for a customer, such as the iPhone color. For attributes with specific options, like storage and color, you need to create picklists so that a customer can select the option from a list.
iPhone Offering Example
Before creating an iPhone 11 offering, you need to create more generic objects that have common options and traits. For example, you can create a smartphone object with common attributes, such as model number, bandwidth, operating system, storage, and dimensions. When you create an iPhone or a Samsung phone based on the smartphone object, they inherit those attributes. You don't have to create them for each phone maker and model. You can set the attributes for each phone offering. For example, for the iPhone 11, you might have a picklist for the colors specific to that phone and another picklist of colors specific to the Samsung S10.
In the Pricing Designer (or Product Console), create the pricing elements — price lists, pricing plans, time plans and policies, promotions, and discounts.
In Product Designer, create product bundles, or a set of products that are sold together.
For example, you could create a new account bundle of the iPhone 11, Apple Watch Series 5, and a mobile data plan.
Then, in Product Designer, you can set the pricing, promotions, and discounts for standalone and bundled offerings.
For instance, by itself, an iPhone 11 is priced at $699. In a new account bundle, the iPhone 11 has a $50 discount.
To create a product, you need to have picklists, attributes, object types, and product specifications. You can then create or update a product bundle, and set the pricing for the new product.
- In the Product Designer, create the attributes, object types, and specifications needed to define an offering.
- Product Designer, pricing is auto-created or re-used while defining Pricelist entries. But you can define pricing elements in the Pricing Designer, define the pricing elements in the Pricing Designer (or in the older Product Console).
- In Product Designer, create product bundles.
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Set pricing for offers.
- Add a price.
- Add promotions and offers.
- Add a cost.
