e-Con Product Configurator

Supported e-Con Product Models

Web store customers can configure the products directly on the product details pages based on their needs using the e-Con Product Configurator with real-time visualization in a responsive user interface that adapts to any device. Once the product is ready, a customer can add it to the basket and place the order which will be saved to the ERP system.

Currently, Sana supports two e-Con product models.

The first product model allows customers to select existing components or product versions from a predefined list similar to product variants. These are the products which already exist in your ERP system. With this model, e-Con does not create a new product. For example, if you sell sofas, your customers can specify its material, type of seaters, their colours, number of back rests, etc.

The second product model allows customers to create a custom product in the e-Con Product Configurator which will be then automatically created in your ERP system. For example, if you sell doors, your customers can select a door model, specify size, color, material, door handle and its position, number of hinges, number and type of locks, etc.

Every time when a customer configures a product using the e-Con Product Configurator, e-Con will create a new product with a unique identifier in the ERP system.

If you open this product in your ERP system, by default the checkbox Visible in Webshop will be disabled for this configured product and it will not be shown in the catalog of your web store. This means that all custom products created from the Sana web store by your customers using the e-Con Product Configurator will be marked as invisible in your ERP system by default and not shown to your customers in the web store catalog. But you can enable visibility for custom products created by e-Con just like for any other product and make them available for purchase online to your customers in your web store catalog.

Configurator Model in ERP

 NOTE

Applies to: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

In the Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems there is the product (item) field related to e-Con Product Configurator, called Configurator Model. This field is added by Sana.

Check the screenshots below to see where this field is located in different ERP systems.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

Sana uses this field to distinguish configurable products from normal products. If a product has a Configurator Model in ERP, customers can configure this product on the product details page in a Sana web store using the e-Con Product Configurator. If there is no value in the Configurator Model field for a product in ERP, Sana will recognize this product as a normal product with no option to configure it. Instead of the Configure button there will be the button Add to cart for configurable products in the Sana web store.

When a customer clicks on the Configure button on the product details page in the Sana web store, the e-Con Product Configurator will open. There a user will be able to configure a custom product depending on the e-Con model assigned to it.