Relationship between Product, Price Book and PricebookEntry
In my previous post, I have explained the basic concepts about Products and PriceBooks. You can read the post here – Products and Price Books in Salesforce.Now in this post, I am going to explain the relationship between Product, Price Book and PricebookEntry. So let’s start with few basics.Basic:Products are represented by Standard Object – Product2.PriceBooks are represented by Standard Object – Pricebook2Each Pricebook can have zero or more entries. Each of these entries are stored inside the Standard Object – PricebookEntry. Each entry in PricebookEntry defines the cost of the products in a particular currency.These three objects – Product2, Pricebook2 and PricebookEntry will only be available if Product is enabled in the organization.Data Model:PricebookEntry is the junction object between Product and Price Book.OpportunityLineItem is the junction object between Opportunity and PricebookEntry.Below is the flow diagram depicting the process to load Products and setup PriceBook through API.I hope this post will help you to understand the relationships between these objects. Please provide your feedback....
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