When you are playing with the product.info API of Magento to acquire the information of a specific product, you may scratch your head and wonder, what are these 3 fields and what do they do:

1. msrp_enabled
2. msrp_display_actual_price_type
3. msrp

After trying and feeding test values to some of the fields in the Price tab of Product Information page (product editing page) in the administrator control panel, I finally found what these meant:

1. msrp_enabled = Apply MAP (Minimum Advertised Price)
2. msrp_display_actual_price_type = Display Actual Price
3. msrp = Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price

Weird? Another case advocating terminology consistency in documentation.

In most cases, sticking to the default values would be fine. So before you are creating a product by the product.create API, use product.info to see what the default values are when the product is created from the administrator control panel.

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