A furniture company is selling unassembled furniture with user manuals.

The recommended approach uses technical products with decomposition rules. According to Revenue Cloud fulfillment documentation, technical products are purpose-built for fulfillment and operational processes rather than commercial sale. User manuals in this scenario should be configured as technical products that accompany the commercial unassembled furniture product but are not visible as separate quote lines to customers.

Decomposition rules govern how commercial products (the unassembled furniture) break down into fulfillment components when an order is activated. By creating a technical product called "User Manual Inclusion" and establishing decomposition rules that link it to the furniture product, the system ensures that when an unassembled furniture order is created and activated, the decomposition process automatically includes the user manual technical product in the fulfillment decomposition.

This approach provides several advantages: customers see only the furniture product in their quote (not the manual as a separate line item), but during order fulfillment, the decomposition rules ensure that user manuals are included in the shipping package. Technical products do not appear in quoting interfaces, so they remain hidden from customer-facing documentation and proposals while still participating in fulfillment operations.

Option A (hiding quote lines) is not recommended because it adds unnecessary complexity to quotes and can cause confusion. Option B (attributes) doesn't support the fulfillment requirement; attributes describe product features, not orchestrate separate fulfillment items. Technical products with decomposition rules is the purpose-built Revenue Cloud mechanism for handling fulfillment-only items that shouldn't appear as commercial line items.