SilverCart 1.2 - Deeplinks

In the last article I talked about price portals and shopping carts. Price portal need your product catalog and they need to link to every single product as well. Thats what you need deeplinks for. A deeplink consists of your online stores domain plus a further url segment which is a product attribute, maybe the product number. Here is an example:

www.yourstore.com/itemnumber/12345

Calling this link would affect a redirect to the product detail page of the product with the item number 12345. As the price portal knows your products item number it is able to create the links to your product detail pages.

With SilverCart you are free to choose every product attribute to create deeplinks. If a deeplink is configured it will be shown in the product details in the backend. Our deeplink feature offers a goodie: If the link does not point to a unique product, eg there is a product with the item number 12345 and one with 123456, a result page with both products will be shown. You may use the deeplinks for filtering as well.