Product guidance

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Practical, task-focused guidance for using Origo and maintaining a well-structured product catalogue.

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AI Assistant

Ask catalog questions, use guided starters, and review every proposed change before it is applied.

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Products and variants

Create a reliable catalogue record first, then use variants only for sellable differences.

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Languages and translations

Set the catalogue language policy first, then enter translations where customers need them.

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Import and export

Use a small, mapped sample before making a bulk change, and treat every import or export as a reviewable job.

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Delivery

Choose the delivery method that matches the destination: channel configuration, export or feed output, or activation publishing.

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Product feeds

Read current Product data without guessing about formats, filters, row shapes, or pages.

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Basic setup

Agree the catalogue model before loading a large number of products.

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Best practices

Make catalogue changes small, named, reviewable, and easy to repeat.

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Categories

Assign products to the category tree from the product detail page; use categories for discovery, not product structure.

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Attributes

Define one named product fact for each value that must be captured, checked, searched, or delivered consistently.

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Attribute groups

Group related attributes so an editor can understand and complete a product without searching through a long list.

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Attribute panels

Arrange attribute groups into an editing layout that follows the work people do on a product.

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Lists

Use lists for values that must be selected from an agreed vocabulary.

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Channels

Configure the catalogue context for a destination; use export, feed, or activation delivery as a separate next step.

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Measures

Use measures to give numeric product facts a consistent unit and meaning.

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Product families

Use product families to define which facts apply to a kind of product; Classification is the related alias in existing terminology.

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Assets

Manage reusable images and documents, then attach each one to the product, category, brand, or custom record where it has a clear purpose.

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Asset delivery

Prepare and check assets for the customer-facing context where they will be used.

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Associations

Link products that customers or teams need to consider together, using a named relationship with a clear direction.

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Data model

Model product information as clear concepts and relationships before adding fields or importing content.

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API reference

Browse every HTTP endpoint, request shape, and response schema, generated from the current Origo main branch.

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Where to start

Begin with basic setup to make the foundational modelling decisions, then use the guides that match the part of the catalogue you are working on.