The Akeneo - General Associations Custom Preference allows you to configure and manage the associations between products, such as cross-selling or upselling relationships, to enhance the shopping experience for customers.Select the association type

In the Connector Configuration Page, select whether you want to import the association as product recommendations or as product links. 

Mapping Product recommendations

In the connector configuration page, you can define which PIM association type you want to map with SFCC product recommendation type. Akeneo can have multiple values of recommendation (as much as necessary).

{
                                                 "matching": {
                                                 "X_SELL" : 1,
                                                 "UPSELL" : 2,
                                                 "PACK" : 3,
                                                 "SUBSTITUTION" : 4
                                                 }
                                                 }

Mapping product link

Salesforce recommends to use Recommendations instead of Product links in Commerce Cloud for product association. Please refer to Salesforce documentation for more details.  Akeneo can have multiple values of links (as much as necessary).

{
  "matching": {
    "X_SELL": "cross-sell",
    "UPSELL": "up-sell",
    "PACK": "other",
    "SUBSTITUTION": "replacement"
  }
}

SFCC Product set 

Create SFCC Product set

As there is no concept of a Product set in the PIM, it is modeled by combining:

• A specific Family (allowing "Product set" attributes to be defined)
• A specific Product association type (allowing products to be associated to this "Product set").

To set up a "Product set" in your PIM you need to:

1. Create a "Product set" Family
2. Create a "Product set" Association type
3. Create a Product representing your "Product set" with the help of the "Product set" Family you previously created.
4. Associate products with the help of your "Product set" Association type to populate your product set.

Configure product set

First, in the connector configuration page, configure your "Product set" Family:

Then, configure your "Product set" Association type:

SFCC Product bundle 

 All the associations under this type will be imported as “bundled products” into SFCC.
It is possible to use the combination of association with quantity and family features in Akeneo. All association with quantity will be synchronized in a bundle AssociationType into SFCC. Associations with quantities are only synchronized in SFCC if the name of the Akeneo’s association is entered in the configuration. For this, it is necessary to fill the productBundleAssociationType option in the Custom Site Preference Groups section of the Business Manager.

Important notice: the deletion of quantity in Akeneo will not be synchronized in SFCC. Manual action will be necessary to remove the quantity in the bundle.
 

Create SFCC Bundle

As there is no such thing as a Product bundle in the PIM, it is modeled by combining:

• A specific Family (allowing "Product bundle" attributes to be defined)
• A specific Product association with quantity type (allowing products to be associated with this "Product bundle").

To set up a "Product bundle" in your PIM you need to:

1. Create a "Product bundle" Family
2. Create a "Product bundle" Association with quantity type
3. Create a Product representing your "Product bundle" with the help of the "Product bundle" Family you previously created.
4. Associate products with the help of your "Product bundle" Association type to populate your product bundle.

Configure the Connector for “Product bundle”

First, in the connector configuration page, configure your "Product bundle" Family:

Then, configure your "Product bundle" Association type: