• Categories in Sales Layer will be Categories in BigCommerce. For example: funny T-shirts.
• Products in Sales Layer will be Products in BigCommerce. For example, a T-shirt with a smile.
• Variants in Sales Layer will be Variants in BigCommerce. For example, a T-shirt with a smile, size L.

In BigCommerce, the following statuses are available:

• In Categories, the status will be classified by visibility as “enabled” or “disabled”.
• In Products, the status will be classified by visibility as “activated” or “deactivated”.
• Variants can be categorized according to whether or not they can be purchased, and the status will be “enabled” or “disabled”.

Glossary and abbreviations

• BigCommerce channel: In BigCommerce, channels are components that publish products on different platforms or places, such as eBay, Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram, or internally as storefronts.
• MSF: Multi Storefront. Functionality that allows you to manage multiple stores from a single BigCommerce account.
• SKU: Stock Keeping Unit. Unique code to identify a product.
• API: A software intermediary that allows two applications to communicate with each other.
• Staging environment: A near replica of a production environment.
• Storefront: An e-commerce. A storefront can have its unique domain, theme, categories, web pages, social media links, price lists, email templates, and more. Clients can have multiple stores to launch a unique brand and target a specific region or customer segment.
• Category tree: Representation of the category structure in BigCommerce.
• Custom field: Fields defined by the client that are not created by default in BigCommerce and are created by the connector. In Sales Layer, custom fields are created in the Output data tab of the connector. Custom fields are available in the products and variants tabs, not in categories.