Can't retrieve non-customizable CustomObject named: Product

Question

Using the ANT migration tool I am able to port all my Standard and Custom objects except for product

My sample package.xml :

 <types>
    <members>*</members>
    <members>Account</members>
    <members>Contact</members>
    <members>Contract</members>
    <members>Opportunity</members>
    <members>Order</members>
    <members>Product</members>
    <name>CustomObject</name>
</types>

Command line log:

retrieveUnpackaged:
[sf:retrieve] Request for a retrieve submitted successfully.
[sf:retrieve] Request ID for the current retrieve task: 09S0k00*****
[sf:retrieve] Waiting for server to finish processing the request...
[sf:retrieve] Request Status: InProgress
[sf:retrieve] Request Status: InProgress
[sf:retrieve] Request Status: Succeeded
[sf:retrieve] Retrieve warnings (1):
[sf:retrieve] package.xml - Can't retrieve non-customizable CustomObject named: Product
[sf:retrieve] Finished request 09S0k00****** successfully.

Any reasons why and how I can retrieve Product?

Answer 1

The API name for the Salesforce Product object is Product2. Put that in your package.xml and you should be able to retrieve the metadata.

Note that the same is true of Pricebook (Pricebook2), but not of Pricebook Entry (PricebookEntry).