The Product Group feature is actually a way to group products of the same product type for presentation purposes. This is useful when we want to have a common presentation layer of a service at Storefront (i.e. various editions of a software) which will also include a list of the product characteristics of each edition of the software (i.e. the products "Office 365 Business Essentials", "Office 365 Business Premium" are related with the "Office 365 Business" product group). Thus, it makes for a more economical way to manage different 'flavors' of the same software in terms of marketing preparation, but also offers a more clear way of depicting the offering selection to the customer! Let's see how to create Product Groups:
You can find respective information on publishing a product group to your Storefront here: Publish a Product Group in Storefront
Product Group Assumptions!
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You can use three ways to add a product under a product group.
When you check this, you force all the products of the product group's product type to belong to this product group automatically.