What is the global custom field system and where does it apply?

Okommerce has a global custom-field system: an "add a custom field" capability available on essentially every form across the platform — not just products, but customers, vendors, orders, leads, and more. It exists because no fixed schema anticipates every business's data needs; rather than forcing code changes, the platform lets operators add their own fields wherever they capture data.…

Okommerce has a global custom-field system: an "add a custom field" capability available on essentially every form across the platform — not just products, but customers, vendors, orders, leads, and more. It exists because no fixed schema anticipates every business's data needs; rather than forcing code changes, the platform lets operators add their own fields wherever they capture data. Newly added fields become first-class: they're stored, displayed, searchable, and usable in templates alongside built-in fields. This is a core expression of the platform's "everything configurable" principle.