CODEWITHSUNDEEP
apibigcommerce
user399883
user399883

Reputation: 253

Bigcommerce Api - add sku to the base product without options

I am using api to add products and i would like to add SKU to the products which is not possible. Is there any workaround for it.

As per https://developer.bigcommerce.com/api/stores/v2/products/skus#create-a-product-sku the options is mandatory. But the products i created doesn't have options.

Any help will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 223

Answers (1)

ShaneOH
ShaneOH

Reputation: 1567

In BigCommerce, product SKUs are referring to two things:

  1. A variation of a product, which can contain options like size, color, etc.
  2. SKU in the simple sense (an identifier).

For an example of (1), let's say you're selling a shoe that's size 10 (SKU: SHOE10), size 11 (SHOE11), and size 12 (SHOE12). The shoe is the product, the specific sizes you're buying are the SKUs. So these SKUs can have options like size, color, etc. SKU: SHOE10 has a size of 10.

If you have no options for your product, it sounds like you're not selling a variation, you're selling a single product. You want option (2). In this case, you want to use the products endpoint, not the SKU endpoint as you linked. You can add the sku that way. Here is what the product object looks like -- as you can see, you can pass in a value for "sku" when you create or update a product.

Upvotes: 0

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