Catalog Configurations

A catalog can have one or more hierarchies of products. The hierarchies contain all the products that you want to display in your store. Optionally, a catalog can have one price book associated with it. If no price book is assigned to a catalog, the products are displayed without prices. This feature can be used when you want customers to contact you for the pricing information.

Creating Catalogs

Before you begin

• Create the hierarchies and price book you want to use in the catalog.

1. In the Product Content Management > Catalogs page, click Add Catalog.
2. In the Name field, enter a name for the catalog.
3. (Optional) In the Description field, enter a description for the catalog.
4. In the Price book field, select a price book.
5. In the hierarchy field, select the hierarchies you want to add to the the catalog. You can add more than one hierarchy to a catalog.
6. Click Save.

Publishing Catalogs

You must not publish a catalog before creating the catalog with the required settings. After publish, a catalog release is created, which is displays the products in the storefront.

1. In the Product Content Management > Catalogs page, double-click a catalog.
2. Ensure that all required configurations are made.
3. Click Publish.

You can also click the ... icon in the catalog listing and click Publish to publish a catalog.

Editing Catalogs

Whenever you make changes in a catalog or any of the components in a catalog, such as, hierarchies or products, you must republish the catalog for the changes to appear in the storefront.

1. In the Product Content Management > Catalogs page, double-click a catalog.

2. Click the ... icon in the catalog listing and click Edit.

3. You can filter the products. For example, if you are adding a new product to a catalog, you can filter using the SKU, Product Name or Product Status.

   1. Click Filters.
   2. In SKU, type SKU that you want to filter your products on. The SKU must match or no results are returned.
   3. In Product Name, type the product name you want to filter on. The product name must match or no results are returned.
   4. From Product Status drop-down list, select Live or Draft, depending on your requirements.
   5. Once you have configured your filter, click Apply Filters. Filters is updated to show that your filter is applied.
   6. You can remove your filters at any time either by removing an individual filter or clicking Clear All to remove all filters.

4. Once you have finished making the required changes, do one of the following:

   • If you do not want to publish the changes, click Save.
   • To publish the changes to the catalog release, click Publish.

Deleting Catalogs

When you delete a catalog, the catalog configuration and all its releases are deleted. The hierarchies, products, and price book remain in the database.

1. To delete a catalog, in the PCM > Catalogs page, do one of the following:

   • Click the ... icon in the catalog listing and click Delete.
   • Select the checkbox in the catalog listing and click Actions > Delete.

2. To delete more than one catalogs, do the following:

   1. Select the checkbox in the catalog listings of the catalogs that you want to delete.
   2. Click Actions > Delete.

Related Resources

Commerce Manager

• Catalog Rules

Concepts

• Catalogs
• Catalog Rules

APIs

• Catalogs APIs
• Catalog Rules APIs

Demos

• Understanding Catalogs in Product Content Management -Configuring Catalogs & Catalog Rules in Commerce Manager