> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://developer.paddle.com/llms.txt).

# Products

Product entities describe the items that customers can purchase. They hold high-level product attributes.

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Products are the items in your catalog sold to customers. For simplicity and flexibility, there's no categories or hierarchies of product — everything purchased starts with a product entity.

Products work with [prices](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/prices.md), which describe how much a product costs and how often it's billed.

Product entities hold information like:

- What the product is called.
- How it should be taxed.
- A description of the product.
- An image to show at checkout and on invoices.

Once you've created a product, you can relate it to a price. Add prices to [checkouts](https://developer.paddle.com/concepts/sell/self-serve-checkout.md), [transactions](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/transactions.md), and [subscriptions](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/subscriptions.md) to let customers purchase products.

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There's no delete operation for products. Use the [update a product operation](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/products/update-product.md) to archive products when you no longer need them. To learn more, see [Delete entities](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/about/delete-entities.md)
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