SKU/Parent SKU fields

Importing Sub Products: The first two fields to map when importing sub product are SKU and Parent Product SKU.

Are these two fields supposed to contain the same data?

If so, Why?

If not, What goes into the SKU field.

The import works with these two fields populated equally, however, the Price differential is not showing up.

I do not understand how the parent/child relationship is made.

Wow, that is some response.

A SKU is supposed to be unique by definition, can anyone explain how product cart works without it being unique?

I have been back and forth through the Wiki documentation. It is too often ambiguous or inaccurate to be considered anything close to reliable.

(I did get the differential to show up).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks you for the response.

The above makes perfect sense. What puzzles me is our sub product import .xls sheet has the same data in the SKU andParent Product SKU fields.

We are not using the Batch Create Sub Products, just the Import Sub Products option.

Is PC reconfiguring the SKU data during the import process?

Should I (Can I) reconfigure it before importing?

MaiBritt wrote: Thanks you for the response. The above makes perfect sense. What puzzles me is our sub product import .xls sheet has the same data in the SKU andParent Product SKU fields. We are not using the Batch Create Sub Products, just the Import Sub Products option. Is PC reconfiguring the SKU data during the import process? Should I (Can I) reconfigure it before importing?

Hi Bob, are you using the Export for Reimport option? There was an issue there where the sub-prod SKUs were all the parent product SKUs, but I believe this was fixed in 4.1 or 4.11.