Concepts correlation

• Categories: In Sales Layer will be Categories in BigCommerce. For example: funny T-shirts.
• Products: In Sales Layer will be Products in BigCommerce. For example, a T-shirt with a smile.
• Variants: in Sales Layer will be Variants in BigCommerce. For example, a T-shirt with a smile, size L.

In BigCommerce we have the following status:

• In Categories: The status will be classified by its visibility as “enabled” or “disabled”.
• In Products: The status will be classified by its visibility as “activated” or “deactivated”.
• Variants: Can be categorized according to whether or not they can be purchased, and the status will be “enabled” or “disabled”.

Glossary and abbreviations

• BigCommerce channel: In BigCommerce, channels are components that publish products on different platforms or places, such as eBay, Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram, or internally as storefronts.
• MSF (Multi Storefront): Functionality that allows you to manage multiple stores from a single BigCommerce account.
• SKU (Stock Keeping Unit): Unique code to identify a product.
• API:  A software intermediary allows two applications to communicate with each other.
• Staging environment: A staging environment is a near replica of a production environment.
• Storefront: We could say that a storefront is an e-commerce. A storefront can have its unique domain, theme, categories, web pages, social media links, price lists, email templates, and more. Clients have multiple stores to launch a unique brand and target a specific region or customer segment.
• Category tree: Representation of the categories structure in BigCommerce.
• Custom field: Custom fields are fields defined by the client that are not created by default in BigCommerce and are created by the connector. In Sales Layer, custom fields are created in the “Output data” tab of the connector. In particular, custom fields are available in the “products” and “variants” tabs, not in “categories”.