Deploy Products

The Deploy Products page contains two tabs from which you can view all undeployed products and your recently deployed products.

Deploying a product means pushing the product to your store where shoppers can see and purchase the product. If you do not deploy a product after you create it, shoppers will not see the product in your store.

When you apply changes to a deployed product, the system will notify you the changes are applied automatically to the live product in your store. If you do not get a notification that the changes were applied automatically to your deployed product, you must redeploy the product when you are done changing it.

Deploy Products taskbar

Button	Description
View Legal Agreements	Allows you to view the legal agreements for your company and site.
Import and Export Products	Allows you to create new products or modify existing products using a spreadsheet. See Importing and exporting products for more information.
Manage Products	Allows you to manage existing products. See Managing products for more information.

Deploy Products attributes

Attributes	Description
Catalog	Select the catalog associated with the product.
Locale	Select the locale associated with the product.

Deploy Products tabs

Tab	Description
Undeployed Changes	Displays all undeployed product changes for your site. See Undeployed Changes for more information.
Recently Deployed	Displays a list of recently deployed products in your catalog. Click the Internal Product Name link to view the Product Details page for the product. See Recently Deployed for more information.

How to deploy products from the Deploy Products page

1. Choose one of the following options:

   • Select Catalog, select Products, and then click Deploy Products.
   • Select Catalog, select Products, and then click Manage Products. From the Products page, click View Products to Deploy.

   The Deploy Products page appears.

2. Under the Undeployed Changes tab, select either the Select All checkbox if you want to deploy all listed products or select the checkbox next to each product you want to deploy.

   Note: You can deploy products with warnings. However, we recommend that you fix all warning errors before you deploy the product. If you deploy a product with errors, the product may not appear or function as expected.

3. Click Deploy.

How to deploy products from the Edit Product page

1. Use the Search tool to locate the product and select the product from the search results The Edit Products page appears. See How to use the Search tool for more information.
2. Click Details.

3. Click Deploy.

   Note: You cannot deploy the product when the Deploy button is disabled. Check the product for errors. When you resolve the errors, the Deploy button will be enabled.

How to revert changes to products

If you change a deployed product, the offer's status changes to Design. If you decide you do not want those changes, you can revert the product to how it appeared when you deployed the last set of changes.

1. Select Catalog, select Products, and then click Deploy Products. The Deploy Products page appears.
2. Select the catalog and locale associated with the product changes you want to revert from the Catalog and Locale lists.
3. From the Undeployed Changes tab, select the products with changes you want to revert. Or select all products by clicking the Select All check to the left of the Deploy button.
4. Click Revert Changes. A message appears informing you that reverted changes cannot be recovered.
5. Click OK to continue.

How to view product details

You can view product details for undeployed products and recently deployed products.

From the Deploy Products page, click the product's Internal Product Name under the Undeployed Changes or Recently Deployed tab to display the Edit Product page for that product. See Deployment warnings and errors for more information.

Editing deployed products

You can edit a deployed product. However, the changes you make will not appear on your site until you deploy the product again. Some settings are disabled when the product is in the Deployed state. If a setting or attribute is disabled, you can make a minor change to the product place the product in Design state. You can modify a product in the Design state and then redeploy the product to your store.

Live changes

When you edit a deployed product, some changes automatically (and almost immediately) appear in your store (without redeploying the product). These are "live changes" and will you see a warning message when you change or save a product in the Product Editor.

The following list summarizes the actions that prompt a live change to the product in your store:

• Adding or removing a category assignment for a product.
• Enabling, disabling, or modifying digital rights settings.
• Adding, editing, or removing pricing.
• Enabling or disabling any of the product options (also called "families") such as software, preorder, volume license pricing, subscription, trial, digital rights, and so on.

Note that when you apply some of these changes to a supported locale, those changes will also trigger a live change.

Undeployed Changes

The Undeployed Changes tab shows all undeployed product changes on your site. The most recent changes appear at the top of the list. The icons that appear next to each product indicate the status of the product. The following table describes the icons.

Icon	Description
	The product has no errors or warnings.
	The product contains one or more errors and cannot be deployed. See Deployment warnings and errors for more information.
	The product contains one or more warnings. See Deployment warnings and errors for more information.

To view the error or warning details, click the product's ID or product variations warning or de.

Undeployed Changes attributes

Button	Description
Deploy	Deploys the latest version of the product. Note: You cannot deploy the product when the Deploy button is disabled. Check the product for errors. When you resolve the errors, the Deploy button will be enabled.
Revert Changes	Allows you to revert the product theme to the last set of deployed changes. Use this feature when you saved changes to the product theme that you do not want to keep. Important: When you revert changes, you essentially undo any changes made to the product theme since you last deployed the product theme. Only revert changes when you do not need to keep the product theme on your site. See How to revert changes to products for additional information.
Preview	A test version of your site and the product in a new window.

Recently Deployed

The Recently Deployed tab shows the last four deployed products in your catalog.

Deployment warnings and errors

When working with a product, you may see messages at the top of the page about errors or missing information for the product. These messages are called "deployment warnings" and "deployment errors." They let you know if you set up your product correctly.

You can also see errors and warnings on the Undeployed Changes tab on the Deploy Products page.

Deployment warnings appear when there is a problem with you set up the product. A warning error is not so severe that it affects a shopper’s ability to purchase the product in your store.

Deployment warnings appear in a yellow box with an exclamation mark.

A deployment error indicates a major setup issue with the product that will likely affect the sale and fulfillment of the product in your store. You cannot deploy products with deployment errors until you fix all errors. This prevents you from deploying a product that will fail to sell correctly in your store.

Deployment errors appear in a red box with an exclamation mark.