Create a Product with Price using Public API

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Products
1. Types of Products
  1. Products with Price
  2. Products with Variants
Create Product using Public API
Conclusion

Introduction

This article mainly aims to guide the users on how to create a product using the public API provided by SourCherry. It also delves down for the cases and several types which the users can take the advantage of while creating a product

Products

Products are the one of the main entities in SourCherry using which, users can sell the products that they want to sell through many forms of selling channels, using E-commerce Stores, Invoices, Estimates, and more

Types of Products

In SourCherry, products are majorly of two type products:

Products with price
Products with Variants

Products with Price

These types of products are simple products which don't have any variants to them. Any product which doesn't require variants (or) has only 1 variant classification can be created in this format. Best example would be Poster with possible sizes

Products with Variants

This type of products are the products which have multiple variations for a single product. Best example would be a T-shirt where there might be multiple colors and sizes

Create Product using Public API

Authorization

In order to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) entities related to SourCherry using Public API, we need access token. The authorization process is explained in the below link:

https://marketplace.SourCherry.com/docs/Authorization/authorization_doc

Creation of Product

For creating a product we are going to utilize the following Public APIs

Create a Product - https://marketplace.SourCherry.com/docs/ghl/products/create-product
Create a Price for Product - https://marketplace.SourCherry.com/docs/ghl/products/create-price-for-product

It is advised to follow the order of the content in order to create a Product

Create Product

First we need to create a product using the Create a Product API . Let us see the basic properties required for Creation of Product

name - name of the product
locationId - for which sub-account this product is created
description - brief description for the product which will be useful in the sales channels to exhibit the product
productType - let us keep it as DIGITAL
image - Featured image which will be displayed by default to the end customer
availableInStore - whether a product should be made available for E-commerce Stores or not
medias - array
- id - unique identifier for media
- title - title for the media
- url - source url of the media
- type - currently only image is supported
- isFeatured - set to true if needs to be displayed to the end customer
variants - only required if you are trying to create a variant product
- id - unique ID for variant
- name - Name of the variant
- options - array
  - id - unique ID for variant option (will be required for creation of Price)
  - name - name of the option

Example Payload for Product with Price:

{
  "name": "High Speed Memory Drive",
  "description": "A high speed memory drive with latest safety features and breath taking design",
  "locationId": "<sub-account_ID>", 
  "availableInStore": true,
  "productType": "PHYSICAL",
  "image": "https://via.placeholder.com/150",
  "medias": [
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "title": "High Speed Memory Drive",
      "url": "https://via.placeholder.com/150",
      "type": "image",
      "isFeatured": true
    }
  ]
}

Example Payload for Product with Variants:

{
  "name": "T-shirt",
  "description": "Latest t-shirt with latest design and quality",
  "locationId": "<sub_account_id>", 
  "availableInStore": true,
  "productType": "PHYSICAL",
  "image": "https://via.placeholder.com/150",
  "medias": [
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "title": "T-shirt",
      "url": "https://via.placeholder.com/150",
      "type": "image",
      "isFeatured": true
    }
  ],
  "variants": [
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "name": "Color",
      "options": [
        {
          "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002",
          "name": "Red"
        },
        {
          "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001",
          "name": "Blue"
        },
        {
          "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440003",
          "name": "Green"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440111",
      "name": "Size",
      "options": [
        {
          "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440112",
          "name": "Small"
        },
        {
          "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440113",
          "name": "Medium"
        },
        {
          "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440114",
          "name": "Large"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Note: For Variant Product, keep in track of the option Ids as they will be playing an important role while creating price

Upon creating a product, we will get a response which will have the property _id which is the created productId. That will be used to create price for a product

Create Price for a Product

We will be using the Create Price for a Product API to create a price for product. Here are the basic properties required for creating a price for a product

product - Id of the product for which it is created
locationId - sub-account Id
name - Name of the Price
type - As we support recurring products as well, the available values are one_time and recurring
currency - Currency of the Price
amount - Amount relevant to the currency
description - Description for the Price
variantOptionIds - required for a product with variants
- For an example if the variant combination is Red/Small , then variantOptionIds values should be as follows -

  ["550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002","550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440112"]

where 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002 is for Red and 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440112 is for Small
For Product with Variants, variantOptionIds are required in order to render product correctly, absence of this property will render the variant combinations incorrectly
trackInventory - If the inventory needs to be tracked, then set to true
availableQuantity - Available Quantity, applicable if trackInventory is true
allowOutOfStockPurchases - Allow purchases of the product even if it is out of stock, only applicable if trackInventory is true
sku - SKU of the price (or) variant
isDigitalProduct - true if it is a Digital Product
shippingOptions - shipping properties for PHYSICALproduct ( will be useful for shipping integrations )
- weight - weight options
  - value - value of the weight
  - unit - metric unit. Supported values - kg, g, lb, oz
- dimensions - dimensions of the Physical Product
  - height - number
  - width - number
  - length - number
  - unit - unit supported for dimensions - Supported values - cm, in, m

Example Payload for Simple Price (Without Variants):

    {
  "product": "66b6021be68f7a98102ba272",
  "locationId": "<sub_account_id>",
  "name": "256 GB", 
  "type": "one_time",
  "currency": "USD",
  "amount": 100,
  "description": "256 GB of storage",
  "sku": "PS-256GB",
  "isDigitalProduct": false,
  "shippingOptions": {
    "weight": {
      "value": 100,
      "unit": "g"
    },
    "dimensions": {
      "length": 10,
      "width": 10,
      "height": 10,
      "unit": "cm"
    }
  }
}

Example Payload for Price for Product With Variants

{
  "product": "66b6021be68f7a98102ba272",
  "locationId": "<sub_account_id>",
  "name": "Red / Small",
  "type": "one_time",
  "currency": "USD",
  "amount": 100,
  "description": "Red / Small",
  "sku": "PS-RED-SMALL",
  "isDigitalProduct": false,
  "variantOptionIds": ["550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002","550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440112"],
  "shippingOptions": {
    "weight": {
      "value": 100,
      "unit": "g"
    },
    "dimensions": {
      "length": 10,
      "width": 10,
      "height": 10,
      "unit": "cm"
    }
  }
}

Note: Variant Option Ids are required for correct rendering of the product variations

Add Image to a variant through Public API

This feature is available only for variant type of products and not price type of products. After creating Price for a product, in the response we will get the Internal Id of the price. Using that we will now update the images for specific variants. Using the received priceIds, we will update the product again with the following payload.

Example Payload for Product Media Update with PriceIds

In the product payload, there will be an array for medias, each and every media array is provided with a property called "priceIds" which in turn is an array, By assigning the respective priceIds, the media will get mapped to variants automatically.

{
  "name": "T-shirt",
  "description": "Latest t-shirt with latest design and quality",
  "locationId": "<sub_account_id>", 
  "availableInStore": true,
  "productType": "PHYSICAL",
  "image": "https://via.placeholder.com/150",
  "medias": [
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "title": "T-shirt",
      "url": "https://via.placeholder.com/150",
      "type": "image",
      "priceIds": ["<created_price_Id>"],
      "isFeatured": true
    }
  ],
  "variants": [
   {...existing variants data}
  ]
}

As of now, we support only one image mapped to one priceId, mapping multiple priceIds to a single image will cause problems in rending the products

Conclusion

Using the above APIs we were able to create a basic ONE TIME Physical product with simple price and also with variants. The flexibility doesn't stop here, as SourCherry supports recurring Products as well, you can refer to the Price API documentation in detail and make use of the properties specifically provided for recurring products