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# Defining transient products

# Defining transient products {#ariaid-title1}

* Freigeben Version: Australia
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* Aktualisiert 12. März 2026
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 Minute Lesedauer

When you create product offerings and technical specifications, you can identify single-use products and services as transient, to differentiate them from persistent products. Examples of one-time use products include
installation or consulting services.

When new orders with transient products are submitted for fulfillment in ServiceNow®
Order Management, the sold product or product inventory records are created with an Installation pending state. After new orders with transient products are fulfilled, the sold product or product inventory state
changes to Inactive. Your fulfillment managers can then quickly see which products aren't part of the active inventory. Agents can't perform Move, Add, Change, Delete (MACD) actions on inactive sold product or product inventory
records.

## Guidelines for defining transient products {#configuring-transient-products__section_wyc_kpk_z2c}

When you're defining product offerings, use the Transient option in the Create New Product Offering form to identify a transient product. If the product has associated technical specifications, you also set the
Transient option in the appropriate Product, Service, and Resource Specification forms.  
When defining transient products, note the following restrictions:

* Create New Product Offering form: The Transient option and the Create contract option can't be enabled at the same time for the product.
* Parent and child product offerings: Transient parent product offerings and parent specifications must have transient child product offerings and child specifications. However, non-transient parent product offerings and parent specifications can have transient child product offerings and child product specifications.
* Linking product offerings to product specifications: A transient product offering must be linked to a transient product specification and vice versa.
* Specification relationships: When defining specification relationships for a transient product, you can associate only a transient service specification or resource specification. Transient product orders are decomposed as indicated in the associated specification.
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For details on setting the Transient option for product offerings and specifications, see [Create product offerings](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/fCOm3kVJAqAWK0epZ9~wcA "Create and publish a product offering in Sales and Order Management. Product offerings represent entities that are orderable from the provider of the catalog and includes pricing information. Once published, product offerings are available to agents as they create leads, opportunities, quotes, and orders and to customers placing orders.")

* [0f03ade088fed750d8bed0be86597769252c933c.dita](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/186f8_wuEI3mkhxyaddfyw "Create and publish a base version of a product specification. A product specification defines all the product options that apply to a customer-facing product you sell, and designates how to fulfill these options. It contains information such as the product description, pricing, eligibility, and product options.")
* [Create and publish service specifications](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/_qKqxa6RCBnzh94djewfeA "Create and publish a base version of a service specification. A service specification defines all the service options that apply to a customer-facing product you sell, and designates how to fulfill these options.")
* [Create and publish resource specifications](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/5Wei9970GcXIjC_~uHl4zg "Create and publish a base version of a resource specification to define all the resource options for a customer-facing product that you sell and to designate how to fulfill these options.")
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