Product variants

Generally a variant is considered a product in Connect, so there is no distinction between a product and a variant of a product. They are stored in the same way.

To save space and avoid duplication of data, you can use the concept of a product family. In a product family, there is one master product, which has all the default product data stored. The related product variants refer to the master product and only contain values that differ from the master product.

A Product type can be regarded as the master product as it can hold default specifications. and so on. You must assign product variants a product type and only the specifications that differ need to be set for the variant.