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Catalogs

Catalogs are the basis for managing your product data. A catalog is a collection of products linked to certain shops, parties, party groups or users. If you sell on multiple platforms, catalogs let you define your product data and assortment for each channel and/or target group separately.

To work with catalogs, in the CloudSuite App go to PIM > Catalogs. An overview appears, listing all catalogs that have already been defined. Double-click an existing catalog to open its details or click New to create a new one.

  • Enter the Name of the catalog. This will be visible to shop visitors, and can be translated.
  • Choose the Type of catalog. This determines the behavior of the catalog and cannot be changed after the catalog has been saved.
    • A Company catalog is by default active for all customers of a particular company. A customer can switch the catalog on or off.
    • A Customer catalog is by default active for one particular customer. The customer can switch the catalog on or off.
    • An Industry Catalog is active for a particular industry.
    • A Product Partition catalog contains products that are uniquely defined.
    • A Segment catalog is different from other catalogs in that it does not determine which products are available to a customer: instead, it is used for personalized recommendations, to determine which products are presented higher on the page.

General​

The Origin of Catalog shows where the catalog data comes from. If it is set to Manual, the catalog's contents is defined in the various tabs described here.

Another possible origin that you may see is Generated by tag. This means that the catalog was created automatically from all the products linked to a particular tag. To maintain the products in such a catalog, edit the tag details. To remove such a catalog, un-check the box Generate a product tree in the tag details.

The other fields in this tab depend on the Type of catalog.

Catalog Type: Company or Customer​

  • If Exclude is checked, the products in the catalog will not be shown to customers who are linked to it. Use this mechanism to exclude a limited number of products. Once a newly-created catalog has been saved, this setting can no longer be changed.
  • If Exclude in Search Results is checked, the products in the catalog will not be shown as a result of searching. A product will still be shown when it is attached to a tree or tag. Use this mechanism, for example, to exclude secondhand or showroom models (with a separate product code) from search results: searching will lead the customer to the new product, but browsing a tag "showroom models" would present the discounted products.
  • If the catalog's type is Customer, you can select a Party Group to use with the additional module Superusers.
  • Designating a catalog as a Pre Order Catalog affects some checks that are carried out in the shop. Additional fields are available.

Catalog Type: Product Partition​

Partition Catalogs are used specifically to allow for automatically bundling products into multiple baskets.

  • The Description is for internal reference and will not be shown to shop visitors.
  • Free texts may be entered to pass information to the cXML or to show notifications in the basket.

Catalog Type: Industry or Segment​

Catalogs of these types do not require any further settings in the General tab. A catalog of type Segment lets you select the appropriate segments in the tab Personalisation.

Shops, Users, Groups and Partiess​

Depending on who you want to include the products for, go to the Shops tab, the Users tab, the Groups tab, and/or the Parties tab and indicate to whom this catalog applies.

Exclusive Parties​

If you link the catalog to a party in the Exclusive Parties tab it applies that those parties only, with the exclusion of all others. This means that its products are by definition no longer visible to all other parties, even if the products are included in other catalogs.

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