- Creating sales catalogs
You might want to add a sales catalog to your store to promote a seasonal line, such as winter clothing.
- Creating sales categories
If you are changing the display structure of your sales catalog, you might want to add a sales category.
- Viewing sales catalogs
You might want to view a sales catalog that has already been added to your store.
- Changing sales catalog categories
You might want to change information about your sales catalog category. For example, you might want to change the description if the summer sales catalog is now on clearance.
- Deleting sales catalogs
You might want to delete a sales catalog if it was created for a one-time event. For example, you could create a sales catalog to sell merchandise for a store anniversary and then delete it once the event is over. Deleting a sales catalog does not delete the products. You can delete only the catalog if there are no categories below it.
- Copying sales categories
You might want to make a copy of your sales category for reuse.
- Assigning catalog entries to a single sales category
You can assign existing catalog entries to a sales category for your store. When you are assigning catalog entries to a sales category, you can choose to assign one or multiple catalog entries at a time to the category.
- Adding catalog entries to multiple sales categories
As a Category Manager or Product Manager, you can use catalog entry assignments to add catalog entries to multiple sales categories at a time. By using catalog entry assignments, you can create sales categories quickly and efficiently.
- Creating extended sites store sales catalog categories
You can extend the display structure of a sales catalog owned by the catalog asset store. To extend this display structure, you create an extended site store sales category inside the sales catalog. For example, if you want to add a winter clothing category to a seasonal clothing sales catalog in the asset store. If you do not want the category to be displayed in any other extended sites stores that use the same sales catalog, then you can create a sales category exclusive to the extended site store.
- Adding a child category to a parent category
You can add a child category to a parent category within the same sales catalog. For example, in a seasonal clothing sales catalog, the hats category can be added to the summer clothing parent category.
- Adding multiple parent categories to a child category
You can add more than one parent category to a child category within the same sales catalog. For example, in a seasonal clothing sales catalog, the hats category can belong to both the winter clothing and accessories parent categories.
- Moving sales categories
You can move a child category to a new parent category in the same sales catalog. For example, if you find that a child category is better defined under a new parent category.
- Removing a parent category from a child category
A sales category can have one or more parents. You can remove the relationship between a child category and one of the existing parent categories. When you remove the relationship, the child category still exists in the sales catalog. For example, in the seasonal sales catalog, you can remove the winter clothing parent category from the hats category but keep the hats category in the accessories parent category.
- Deleting a sales category
You can delete a sales category from a sales catalog.
- Managing linked categories
If you are creating or updating a sales catalog, you might want to link a category from the master catalog to a sales catalog or from one sales catalog to another. For example, a Winter Coats category in the master catalog could be linked to the Coats category in the Winter Specials sales catalog. Linking helps to keep categories consistent. For example, when you add a product to the original category, the categories that are linked to the original category will also see the product that was added.
- Managing rule-based sales categories
The Category Manager or Product Manager can use the Catalogs tool to create, manage, and delete rule-based sales categories within a sales catalog.