Glossary
When developing with Commerce APIs, it's helpful to know Squarespace Commerce terms and how they're used by merchants and the APIs.
Inventory
- A collection of products configured for a Squarespace merchant site.
A Squarespace merchant may use "inventory" in the following ways:
- To refer to the Commerce > Inventory page in the Squarespace UI. This page lists every product that's been configured for a merchant site.
- To refer to the quantity of an item, for example, "The inventory for this product is running low."
- With respect to the Inventory API, an "inventory item" is any variant of a configured product that supports stock tracking, which is a feature of physical and service products.
Product
A sellable item on a Squarespace merchant site, which may be sold as variations (or "variants"). Multiple product types are supported for a Squarespace store including physical goods, services, gift cards, downloads, and subscriptions.
Product variant
A variant of a product sold on a Squarespace merchant site.
For example, a bakery may sell Pies and Cookies,
where "Key Lime" and "Pecan" are variants of Pies
and "Chocolate Chip" and "Oatmeal Raisin" are variants of Cookies.
Stock keeping unit (SKU)
A user-defined code assigned for the purpose of identifying a product variant.
SKUs help merchants keep track of product quantities and identify the variant of a product customers purchase. Squarespace merchants are not required to keep unique SKUs across all of their products, however, SKUs for variants of the same product must be unique.