Introduction

Overview

Catalogue Management is where products from suppliers and spreadsheets are collected and prepared before they become Master Products.

Why a catalogue comes before Master Products

Product data rarely arrives ready to sell. A supplier sends a spreadsheet with their own column names, codes, sizes written three different ways, and photos still to come. If that file went straight into Master Products, half-finished products would sit next to the ones you sell, and fixing them would mean editing live data.

Catalogue Management gives that data its own working area. Each catalogue holds products exactly as they came from the source. Your team fills the gaps, adds images and variants, and decides how each field fits O2M. Only when a product is complete do you export it to Master Products, where it gets its SKU and stock and can be listed on your channels.

What you get

• Source data kept as it came: the supplier's columns, codes and SKUs stay in the catalogue, so you can always compare against the original.
• Only real variants: if a supplier makes Black/Small, Black/Medium and White/Medium, those are the three variants O2M creates. Combinations nobody makes, such as White/Small, are never invented.
• Catalogue-only fields: working notes such as photoshoot status or vendor remarks stay in the catalogue and never reach Master Products or a channel.
• A preview before anything changes: export always shows what will be created, linked or updated first.
• Re-imports you control: a new supplier file never overwrites a Master Product without your decision.

How it works

Default limits

Every company starts with these limits. Your O2M account manager can raise any of them.