What are product types used for?
Product type is used to group custom fields. In other worlds, a product type is a custom field group. To see it in action, please have a look at our demo site: demo1.alicommerce.com
When I look at the demo it is hard to determine how the product type / custom field group is different from a Category / Sub Category relationship. Or is it the same relationship, but maybe I don't understand custom fields at this point. Can you provide a few more details and maybe a couple of use cases for the custom field / product type tools.
Thanks.
Cliff
We had reset all the information in demo site and the example usage of product type is gone now.
We'll update quick start guide in the near future to include a step by step tutorial on it.
In alicommerce, custom field is used to describe extra information for a product, like author and isbn for a book, publishing data for DVD, etc.