How to use Features and Categories in CPQ?

In CPQ there are many different ways to display Products to your users. In this post, I am going to review how you can show a bundle product that has its features broken out by tabs and then sub-groupings on that tab. Our end goal is going to look something like this:

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The use case for achieving the above is simple. You have a Product that has many different top-level categories, like a Desktop computer, that you need to select Storage for. Under the topic of Storage, you have different groupings underneath that, that you want to break up, like SSD vs HHD.

Here are the steps:

  1. In Setup, go to the Feature object and then go to the Category field
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  2. Add new picklist values that are going to represent your Tabs
  3. Next, create the Feature records for the bundle Product
  4. Name the Feature what you want the Sub-Group level title to be
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  5. Next, set the Category field of the Feature to be the picklist value that you added for your Tab (if you added more than one, pick the correct corresponding value)
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  6. Lastly, ensure that the Product Options have the correct Feature associated with them
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That’s it. Once you have completed these steps for all of your Features and Product Options you will have the result that we started with.

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5 thoughts on “How to use Features and Categories in CPQ?

    1. I do not believe there is a direct way to set the order, however, I would make sure to set the Number on both the Feature and the Option to be in the order you want them, going in sets of q0 (10,20,30 etc). It might auto set it correctly based on that as the Number controls the order. Let me know if this works out.

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      1. I tried numbering them and that didn’t work. I did, however, figure it out. I had to deactivate the categories and then reactivate them in the order I wished them to appear and that resolved the issue. Thank you!

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