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# Creating and publishing product offering versions

# Creating and publishing product offering versions {#ariaid-title1}

* Freigeben Version: Australia
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* Aktualisiert 12. März 2026
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As a product catalog manager, you can create and publish the product offering versions that list the improved products and services that you can offer to your customers in a product catalog.

## Overview of product offering versions {#creating-publishing-new-versions-product-offerings__section_ekj_14t_2tb}

You create product offering versions for an existing product that you are improving. You typically create versions of product offerings by combining new versions of product, service, and resource specifications. Proper versioning enables your customer service agents to know what the latest versions of your product and service offerings are when they sell more expensive, complementary, upgraded, or related products to your customers.

## Creating versions of product offerings {#creating-publishing-new-versions-product-offerings__section_tq4_tl2_2tb}

When you create a version of a product offering, do the following actions:

1. Create and assign a version number in each of the product, service, or resource specifications or product offering records that are affected by the changes. To reflect the engineering changes that were made to the physical product, edit the following data that is associated with the product offering version:  
   * Characteristics
   * Characteristic options
   * Product specifications
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2. Create the required specification relationships, decomposition rules, and attribute mappings for each specification in the new version. To learn more, see:
   * [f83145089649af8ef69fec90f2f7108bdb527ca6.dita](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Br_U7HX2Qq4L32YWHolrig "As a product catalog manager, you can create and publish the specification versions that list the improved products and services that you can offer to your customers in a technical product catalog.")
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3. Create the product offering, and then publish it when you update your product catalog.
4. Retire or archive old or unused specifications, and product offerings. To learn more, see [087d41c3a2296d2fb305177af8c1dad38566d629.dita](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/cDUng4db2GskxXdj5qQoLw "As a product catalog manager, you can move a published specification or a product offering to a Retired or Archived state when they are no longer in use or are being sold. When you retire a specification version, you can't use it in a product offering or create specification versions.").
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## Updates and validations that are performed when you create and publish a product offering version {#creating-publishing-new-versions-product-offerings__section_qw5_mmt_2tb}

When you create a version for a currently published product offering, the ServiceNow AI Platform® copies the following data into, or populates, the new product offering record with the following data:

1. Copies the following fields with these basic product offering details:
   * Product Specification
   * Contract Term
   * Monthly Recurring Charges
   * Non Recurring Charges
   * Description
   * Offering Catalog
   * Distribution Channel
   * Start and End date
   * Product code and Product line
   * Cost to Company
   * Composite, Installation Required, and Location-specific indicators
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2. Populates the following fields with the detailed information that you enter for the new product offering version:
   * Version. The next incremental number appears.
   * Display Name. The display name is the system-assigned concatenation of the product offering name and its current version number. You can overwrite this field.
   * Initial Version. The name of the base version of the product offering appears but can't be changed.
   * Previous Version: The name of the product offering is as it was in the previous version.
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When you publish the updated product version, additional validations are performed on your edits. To learn more, see the Updating and validating copied rules for a new specification version section in [f83145089649af8ef69fec90f2f7108bdb527ca6.dita](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Br_U7HX2Qq4L32YWHolrig "As a product catalog manager, you can create and publish the specification versions that list the improved products and services that you can offer to your customers in a technical product catalog.").
* **[Create and publish a product offering version](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Myc4Id8M0W5t~u48inD3sA)**   
  Create and publish a version of an existing product offering in a Published state so that you can offer an improved version of it in your product catalog.