Overview

With extension templates, you can attach a specific set of custom fields to your products in Product Experience Manager. You can create templates for your products at both the organization and store level.

Templates are a collection of attributes. Attributes are grouped together to match a particular product type or to provide an input for other purposes, such as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or product specification. For example, a Book template might contain the attributes, such as ISBN, Author, Number of pages, Year Published, or Condition (New/Used).

You can create product templates for both organization and store. However, stores can use organization templates for store level products.

Use attributes to define the characteristics of products in a store. For example, you can assign attributes such as, care instructions or fabric, to a shirt. When a shopper searches for a specific item, attributes help stores to return the products that match the search criteria. For example, when a shopper searches for a large blue shirt, all shirts that are large and blue are returned as the search result.

You can allow your shoppers to add custom text to a product when checking out their carts. This is useful, for example, if you have a product like a T-shirt that can be personalized. You can do this using the custom_inputs attribute when creating your products.

Once you have defined your custom inputs on a product, you must configure the custom inputs in your orders. See adding your products to carts.

For more information about adding attributes, see Add custom data to products.

• Understanding Attributes