Working with catalogs

The Category Manager or Product Manager manages the catalog hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting catalogs for stores. There are two types of catalogs: master catalogs and sales catalogs.

• 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.

• Creating a globalized catalog
  We can update a catalog to support displaying catalog entries, categories, and sales catalogs in multiple languages and prices in multiple currencies. By creating such a globalized catalog, you need to assign catalog entries to a category or manage language-insensitive properties only once to have the changes apply for all languages.

• Manage sales catalogs
  The Category Manager manages the category hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting categories in sales catalogs.

• Default catalog
  A store has one master catalog and can have one or more sales catalogs. If the store has more than one catalog, we can specify a default catalog. Selecting a default catalog ensures that a shopper that visits the store without specifying a catalog in the URL, views the default catalog in the storefront.