General information regarding structure and naming of data within DdD-Retail.

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GroupId

This is the identifier for a group of shops. I.e. 996 is a DdDRetail test group.

ShopId

This is the identifier for a shop within a group(GroupId). I.e. 996001 is a test shop which belongs to 996. Often is the GroupId, the first part of a ShopId, but that is not consistent. A ShopId can participate in one or more WebshopId’s.

WebshopId

This is the web-shop within a GroupId. A web-shop can have one ore more ShopId’s linked to it. A GroupId can have one or more WebshopId’s. Not all ShopId’s within a group is required to participate in a web-shop.

SupplierId

This is the identifier for a supplier.

VariantId/UniqueItemNumber/EdbNumber

This is the identifier for an item. This is unique within a GroupId.

ItemGroupId/ItemGroupNumber

This is the identifier for a grouping of VariantId’s. I.e. “Pants”, “Skirts” …

Barcode/EAN

This is an identifier for an item. This is not unique within a GroupId. Multiple barcodes can exist for an item.

Article

This is a combination of a style and a variant.

Style

This is the “header” of an article.

Variant

This is the “body” of an article.