Product bindings and SKUs

Product bindings and SKUs

How Odoo products become known to the 3PL, the four ways to get them there, what a push actually sends, and how automatic matching links an existing 3PL catalogue without ever creating products behind your back.

The product binding

Operations > Products lists one line per (product, instance) pair - the product binding. It records the state of that product at that 3PL:

  • To Push - queued to be created/updated at the 3PL.
  • Synced - exists at the 3PL; the 3PL's own product id is stored.
  • Error - the last push failed; the error text is on the line and the full exchange is in the Sync Log.

The same product can be bound to several instances independently - synced at Sprint, still to-push at ShipHero.

SKU rule. The 3PL identifies products by SKU. A binding uses the product's Internal Reference by default; the Remote SKU field covers the case where the 3PL knows the product under a slightly different code (for example a legacy code with a trailing space - it happens). Products without an Internal Reference cannot be pushed and are rejected with a clear message naming them.

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