Managing Product Catalog Settings (WA Only)

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The POSaBIT Product Catalog can be customized to fit how your team manages product data across your stores. Whether you prefer full control with manual mapping or want to automate how products are enriched with supplier-provided images and descriptions, these settings allow you to tailor the experience to your workflow.

This article explains how to enable or disable the Product Catalog and configure management options, including automation levels and sync preferences for images and descriptions.

To enable or disable the POSaBIT Product Catalog:

1. Navigate to your Merchant settings to configure management options (select user name drop down > Merchant > Settings > General Settings).

   

   

2. Scroll down to Product Catalog Management to configure how you'd like your Product Catalog to be managed.
   Note: enabling the Product Catalog is at the 'Merchant' level - meaning, these settings will apply to all stores (venues) associated with your POSaBIT POS account.
   1. Management Type
      1. None: this option disables the Product Catalog.
      2. Manual: this option enables users to manually search the product catalog and connect to catalog data from the product details edit page (creating a new product from the Products tab and from incoming manifests).
      3. Automated New: this option includes automating the mapping of NEW products incoming from manifests. If POSaBIT detects there is catalog data for a NEW product, we will automatically populate the product details form from the incoming manifest product creation modal with the 'suggested' catalog product. This is suggested to help streamline the creation of new products from incoming manifests (in addition to the ability to still manually map existing products to catalog products).
      4. Automated All: this option includes mapping ALL products to products in the catalog that have data available (images and/or product description is available from the catalog). If there is no data available in the catalog, your products will NOT sync with the catalog product until there are images and/or a description to sync with from the catalog.
   2. Sync Descriptions: check this box if you'd like to pull in product descriptions from the catalog.
   3. Sync Images: check this box if you'd like to pull in images from the catalog.
   Note: from the product details form, you can select/deselect which images you'd like to map to your product. If the catalog description is modified from the product details form, then it will no longer sync with the catalog - meaning if a Supplier updates the description, it will not stay in sync and receive any updates made by the vendor.

   

3. Once the above Product Catalog Management settings are configured, click Save.

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