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What Is a Product

Understanding product groupings in Brahmin Solutions

Updated over 3 weeks ago

In Brahmin Solutions, a Product is a high-level grouping used to organize related inventory items.

Products act as the parent record for one or more variants. They help you keep your catalog clean and structured without duplicating similar items.


Key Characteristics of Products

A product:

  • Organizes related items under one name

  • Can contain one or many variants

  • Does not hold inventory quantities directly

  • Does not store pricing directly

  • Exists primarily for reporting, structure, and variant management


Product Naming Best Practices

Product names should remain generic.

Do not include variant attributes such as:

  • Size

  • Color

  • Style

Example Product Names

  • Chair

  • Table

  • Bike

Instead, differences like “Large” or “Black” should be handled through variants.


Products and Manufacturing / Purchasing

A product can represent items that are:

  • Manufactured internally

  • Purchased from suppliers

  • Sold directly to customers

  • Used inside other products as components

The specific behavior depends on the item’s flags (Buy, Sell, Make, Kit).


When should I create a new Product?

Create a product when you want to group multiple similar sellable items together, such as:

  • T-Shirts (with size and color variants)

  • Chairs (with material or finish variants)

  • Bikes (with style variants)

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