Across teams, different words are often used to describe similar concepts. This article aims to describe commonly used terminology used at Constructor to describe product catalog data.

Items and variations

• Items (most commonly products) are sometimes offered in several variations, such as different sizes, fits, and / or colors.
• When determining what should be considered an item or a variation, refer to your current product listing pages (search results and browse pages). We consider whatever information is represented by each result tile on these pages to be an item (product).
• We have flexibility when organizing variations data. A product that comes in 3 sizes and 4 colors can be represented as 12 variations (1 for each size and color combination) or 4 variations (one for each color).

Item groups and facets

• Item groups refer to the categories that items (products) are organized into. Each product may belong to multiple groups.
• A browse page is a product listing page (PLP) that shows all items belonging to a single group.
• The group hierarchy is presented in the user interface as a navigation menu, allowing users to browse directly to product listing pages instead of utilizing a search feature.
• Facets refer to the product and variation attributes used to sort and filter results.