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Use Product.update to create a Product and populate it with data.
When you create a Product object, Subscribe assigns it a globally unique Vindicia identifier (VID). As the preceding example illustrates, your application can capture the VID for later use. The Product object also includes a data member called merchantProductId, which allows you to assign your own identifier, such as the stock-keeping unit (SKU), for the product. The merchantProductId mustbe unique for each Product object you define. Like BillingPlan objects, Product objects are stable objects that are usually created at the start of a paid service by business analysts or people in business roles. The Subscribe Portal allows you to create and manipulate Product objects through a user interface. See the Subscribe User Guide for more information. Note: Do not make changes to an active Product object once subscriptions are activated in the system (that is, once the related Product, AutoBill, and BillingPlan objects that reference a particular Product object are active). Create a new Product object instead. The Product object supports several information-only attributes, such as endOfLifeTimestamp and status. These attributes may be used to sort or categorize your products. Product objects can grant any number of token types. When a real-time or recurring transaction is made for a product that grants tokensSubscribe, Subscribe grants those tokens, and associates them with the Account object in question. For more information, see Section 13: The Product Object in the Subscribe API Guide. For information on how the Product object affects entitlements, see Creating Entitlements. Parent topic:Working with Products