Concepts and Field Correlation - Analogies

In general, most concepts are aligned (categories, products, variants), but some need to be specially mentioned.

On VTEX platform, one of the conditions for your products to be active, that is, to appear in your store, is to have an SKU assigned to it. So, you will need to have a SKU assigned to a variant or product.

VTEX alignes Category with Attribute Set (in Sales Layer terminology), so, this rule must be applied also for categories in your Sales Layer catalog. In Sales Layer it is not possible to link Attribute Set with category, so you should take into account that for each category all products should be of the same Attribute Set.

Other concepts present in VTEX and its correlation:

Categories: VTEX offers only one category for each product. In the case of multicategory in Sales Layer, the connector will inform the first one, so it is recommended to adapt Sales Layer categories accordingly. For understanding its features and restrictions go to Categories.

Groups: it allows you to gather fields specifically appropriate for some SKUs. There is a specific way to correlate this in Sales Layer even when this concept doesn’t exist. For more information on this, you can go to this link: Groups.

Field or specifications: These are properties that you can add to your SKUs to assign specific features to your store products, such as custom fields. For more information, go to Specifications.