WebSphere Commerce EnterpriseIntroduced in Feature Pack 2

Filter your catalog to a specific set of catalog entries

The Catalog Filter and Pricing tool is a Management Center tool that business users can use to filter their catalog to a specific set of catalog entries. Sellers, Sales Managers, and Account Representatives can use the tool's flexible features to implement pricing strategies that meet the site's business needs over time and to filter your catalog for product and price entitlement.

What are some examples of catalog filtering?

Here are some examples of catalog filtering activities:
  • Use catalog filter as one of the price rule conditions to define what prices the customers are entitled to. For example, you can define a set of catalog entries to be marked down by 15% using price rules.
  • For detailed catalog filtering scenarios see: Scenarios for using catalog filters.

What are the benefits of catalog filter?

Managing your catalog filters within Management Center provides you with the following business benefits:
  • Supports reusability across stores and contracts.
  • Provides a more flexible filtering criteria that supports including or excluding by categories, catalog entries, attributes in the attribute dictionary, and catalog entry properties.
  • Supports search engine-based dynamic catalog filtering, based on Solr search platform.

Which user roles use catalog filtering?

Catalog filter capabilities within Management Center are easily leveraged by the following user roles:
  • Sellers, Sales Managers, and Account Representatives can use the Catalog Filter and Pricing tool's flexible features to filter catalogs for product and price entitlement.