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Product Definition with the Product Console
The Product Console provides a single, contextual interface for managing your EPC elements. Using this interface, you perform product management by defining and maintaining product entities. You can build foundational constructs like attributes and picklists, as well as metadata constructs like product object types.
The Vlocity Product Designer is the next generation Product Catalog administration application. See Plan Your Product Catalog.
theThe product console is designed to build fundamental constructs, such as:
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System administrators can use predefined objects, such as Salesforce Object2, to create reusable object types that define properties (attributes or fields) and layouts common for all product entities. For example, you can create offers or product specifications that are instantiated from these object types. This is typically done one time, as part of the initial setup.
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Product managers can manage product structure, pricing, rules, and offers.
Many elements of Industries CPQ and order management are co-located in the Vlocity Product Console to provide seamless integration between the shared product catalog, the ability to configure, price and quote the products in the catalog, and define technical specifications for order decomposition and fulfillment.
- The Product Console Interface
The Product Console provides a unified user experience to manage EPC elements in a single, contextual interface. The Product Console is a web-based application for managing the Enterprise Product Catalog. - Navigating to the Product Console
To use the Product Console, you must use the Lightning interface. From the Product Console, you can create product entities. - Upgrade to Product Selling Period Dates
If your deployment is on an earlier release of Salesforce Industries Communications, Media, and Energy, you must upgrade to Fall '18 before you can set up your shared catalog to use product selling period dates. - Product Entities Overview
Before creating products in Vlocity Product Console, you must understand the following product entities, their dependencies, and the order in which you must create them. - Create Products in the Product Console
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. - Fix HierarchyResult Issues When Versioning is Enabled
When you create a product from the Product Console, you’re prompted to enter the effectivity dates of the product. For example - the effective date, selling start date, or selling end date. However, you aren't required to enter values for these fields in the Product Console. Due to this, you can create products with no effectivity dates. - Overview of Attributes
Attributes describe objects. Vlocity offers two types of attributes, Profile Attributes and Product Attributes.
