Concept in Sales Layer and Concept in PrestaShop:

• Categories, for example a funny T-shirts category, correspond to Categories in PrestaShop.
• Products, for example a T-shirt with a smile, correspond to Products in PrestaShop and are identified by reference and name.
• Variants, for example a T-shirt with a smile in size L, correspond to Combinations in PrestaShop and are identified by reference.

Glossary and abbreviations

SKU: Stock Maintenance Unit.

Characteristics: Attributes that depend on the product. They are fixed to a product and always rely on it.

Combinations: Modifications of products that add new attributes. These attributes can take different values depending on the variant or combination chosen within a product.

API: A software intermediary that allows two applications to communicate with each other.

Test environment or staging environment: A test environment is an almost exact replica of a production environment.

Multishop: A single channel is configured in Sales Layer for many stores.

Custom fields: Client-defined fields that are not created by default in PrestaShop and must be added to the code. In Sales Layer, custom fields are created in the connector in the Connector Output Data tab for products and variants.