Jasper PIM Terminology

Useful terminology for Jasper Users

Below is a list of useful terms used throughout Jasper PIM.

• Asset (Primary) - Thumbnail used for brand logos, category images, channel logos

• Assets - Images, PDFs, Docs, CAD Files

• Attribute - Product specific data elements (text, date, select-box, multi-select, markdown, JSON). When internally used, can house searchable values to power batch actions in PIM for merchandising and marketing efforts. Most commonly used externally when publishing to a storefront for product specifications or 3rd party search provider to establish filter criteria.

• Attribute Set - A grouping of attributes that can be assigned to a product, category or generic entity

• Brands - Makers of products (not necessarily the supplier/vendor or manufacturer but the public facing company associated with the product

• Categories - Organizational grouping of products. Categories can be nested under another category and housed under a Root that can be assigned to a specific publication channel. Categories can be set to invisible until ready to publish

• Channel - An outbound publication endpoint such as a storefront (BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento) or CSV export

• Concrete Entity - The value for a generic entity, capable of having its own attributes. For instance if you have a generic entity called author, then William Shakespeare would be the concrete entity. His biography would be an attribute suitable for use on the concrete entity.

• Display Group - The user-facing organizational grouping of attributes on the attribute page. This is entirely customizable by the user

• ERP - Enterprise resource planning software, typical back office master for SKU creation, can connect via API to the PIM to control pricing(and sometimes inventory) data

• Generic Entities - Custom data objects that can be related to products, have attributes assigned to them (ex. book author as the entity with books they've written as the related products, and awards they've won as a related attribute)

• Jobs - Automation log of batch actions performed within the PIM

• Logging - Automation logs of sync records to outbound channels

• OMS - Order Management System, separate from Jasper

• Option sets - Assignable groups of Option used to create parent/child products

• Options - Pivotable "attribute" that determines the relationship between a parent a child product child product)

• PCSID - (Legacy) Jasper internal product ID

• PDPs - Product detail pages on ecommerce storefronts

• Permission - A toggle-able level of access to a specific PIM feature

• PIMID - Jasper internal product ID (current)

• Profile (Import Export) - Template mapping from PIM to CSV and vice versa, used for imports to and exports from the PIM.

• Role - Assignable set of permissions allowing a user a specific level of access to PIM features

• SEO - Search Engine Optimization, the act of preparing your product data to better be recognized and ranked by search engines

• SKU - External product identifier, typically generated by customer ERP system

• Sync - An updated exchange of data between the PIM and an external system. Most typically the publication of data from PIM to a channel.

• Thumbnail - Primary product image used for main hero images on product detail pages and product grids

• User - A signed-in user of the PIM

• Version - An alternative set of product data capable of being used in place of the master when publishing to a channel. Versions contain name, description and attribute data. Versions can be used for alternative content or even storing different languages within the PIM.

• WMS - warehouse management system (standalone inventory management)

• Workflow State - Custom created linear product enrichment lifecycle state. Can be used to establish the current "state" of the product as it is being enriched prior to publication, or as part of a higher level lifecycle such as "active, discontinued, EOL, etc."