Master catalog

The master catalog is the central location to manage the store merchandise. Everything that you need in the store is contained within the master catalog. It is the single catalog that contains all products, items, relationships, and standard prices for everything that is for sale in the store.

Every store in the WebSphere Commerce system must have a master catalog. We can share the master catalog across stores and define as many stores as needed.

In addition to creating a master catalog for the catalog management, we might also choose to create one or more sales catalogs for display purposes. A sales catalog can contain the same entries as the master catalog, but the sales catalog has a flexible structure for customer display purposes. We can have as many sales catalogs as we want.

Use the Management Center Catalogs tool to view and manage the master catalog.

Related concepts
Categories
Sales catalogs
Catalog entries
Products
Product-level SKUs
Category-level SKUs