> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://cherrycake.tin.cat/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://cherrycake.tin.cat/architecture/items.md).

# Items

Items are Cherrycake's conceptualization of the fundamental objects stored in a database. For example, in an e-commerce site, a product would be an Item, but also would a user, a product category or an invoice.

The most interesting benefits of working with Items in Cherrycake are:

* Items can be easily retrieved, updated or deleted from the database, there's no need to implement your own database access code.
* All security-sensible operations with Items are supervised by the Cherrycake [Security](/architecture/security.md) mechanisms.
* Items get all the [performance](/architecture/performance.md) and caching benefits of Cherrycake right out of the box.
* Items support multi language fields, multi-timezone date-time fields, automatic URL slug generation and much more.

> See the [Items guide](/guide/items-guide.md) to learn how to work with Items in Cherrycake