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What Is a Product

Understanding product groupings in Brahmin Solutions

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