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Order any Standard product without setting it up first

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RPI Print
RPI Print
Product Team

You can now order any Standard product by its manufacturing SKU without creating it on the Products page first. The first order for that SKU adds the product to your catalog. You can also set up more than one product on the same manufacturing SKU, so two different books printed as the same 10x8 hardcover can each have their own product SKU.

Ordering by manufacturing SKU​

Send a Standard manufacturing SKU, such as BKPH_HCIW_STD_10.000x8.000IN_80C_GL_40_100T_EGG_44, in an order item's sku. If no product in your catalog has that SKU, RPI Print API adds one. The new product uses the manufacturing SKU as its product SKU and RPI's product name as its name. Later orders for that SKU use the same product, and you can rename it on the Products page.

The price and shipping estimates find products the same way an order does, so you can estimate a manufacturing SKU before you order it. An estimate never adds a product to your catalog.

How RPI Print API finds the product​

RPI Print API looks for a product in your catalog whose product SKU matches sku before it checks manufacturing SKUs. A product SKU you created always wins, even when the same value is also a manufacturing SKU. Both lookups ignore upper and lower case.

RPI Print API finds products only by product SKU. Suppose you have product CUST_100 on manufacturing SKU BKPH_100. An order item with sku: BKPH_100 adds a second product with product SKU BKPH_100. To order CUST_100, send sku: CUST_100.

What you need to do​

Nothing. Orders that use your existing product SKUs work as before. See Products for the full lookup rules.