Need to retrieve every detail your client could ask for? You can get even more structured, detailed product data than before.
Let your system know if a product attribute is displayed on the storefront and how. Second in a dropdown list? Seventh in a textbox? It's no problem to extract this information and use it to do what you do best, be it data feed management, cross-border commerce, or any other B2B service.
To help your business get the most out of product attribute data, API2Cart offers a set of API methods that cover the operations you might want or need to perform as part of automated product attribute management. With this API2Cart functionality, you can do the following:
- get all the product attributes available on the shopping cart via product.attribute.list
- set attribute value to the product via product.attribute.value.set
How Your Customers Use Product Attributes
If your users sell electronics, furniture, or tools of any kind, they want to offer buyers the ability to search and browse items based on a specific attribute such as colour or brand. If they sell or plan to sell products on different platforms and marketplaces, they want those products described consistently everywhere, with no detail missed and preferably in the same order.
How Your B2B System Can Use Product Attributes
A product attribute management platform pulls product attributes from the primary online point of sale — in most cases, a web store — and makes sending item facts and descriptions to any platform worldwide more effective, since the information is more structured and detailed. Apart from all the product attributes that the shopping cart allows, these API methods retrieve additional information to let you do the following:
- get attribute groups, values, and labels
- know whether the information is visible on the storefront (including how and where)
- see if a user-defined attribute is required when placing an order
This kind of automated product attribute management is especially useful for platforms built around AI-driven storefronts and automated catalog workflows — for example, see how you can run your store with AI without a developer. It also supports integrations with carts such as those covered in our PrestaShop API integration guide.
Interested in finding out more or would like to start benefiting from product attributes today? Get in touch with our representative to discuss the details.
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