Sample Catalog

The productA product represents various forms of merchandise that you can display and purchase from the public site, including Products, Variations/SKUs, Bundles, Packages and Dynamic Packages. catalogA catalog is a top-level container for all catalog entries such as Categories, Products and SKUs. contains information regarding brands and sales items. This information will either be displayed in the public site, or used for pricing and promotionsA way to apply various discounts to the products, order totals or shipping. A Promotion is a marketing tool used to increase sales of certain products or product lines. Various incentives such as lowered pricing and other discounts can be employed as part of a Promotion. Promotions are always tied to Campaigns. Promotions can be classified into two types: 1) either you can create a Promotion that is visible prior to checkout or 2) you can configure the Promotion to be displayed during the checkout process. The most powerful aspect of the Marketing system is the Expression Engine which allows variable conditions to be applied when creating a Promotion. These conditions vary from the number of items, the percentage discount, shipping rates and many others.. Product catalogs needs to be imported into EPiServer Commerce. This will normally be done automatically during the installation procedure for the EPiServer Commerce sample site.

However, there may be occasions where you need to import a product catalog, and the procedure is therefore described in the following. There are different ways of doing this, and in this example we describe how you manually import the sample catalog for the sample site, using the import/export function in Commerce Manager. When product catalogs have been imported, they also need to be indexed, in order for the product search function to incorporate any changes.

Additional information on how to import product catalogs can be found in the Catalog Management section.

Importing the Sample Catalog

The sample site includes two product catalogs providing the "everything" and the "brand" view.

1. In Commerce Manager, select Catalog Management and then Catalogs.
2. Click on Import/Export and then Import Catalog, this takes you to the Import Catalog screen.
3. Select the catalog zip file, in this case "CatalogExport_Catalog_Wine_Sample.zip" and click Start Import.
4. When the import has completed, click Close Window.
5. Select "CatalogExport_Catalog_Wine_Sample.zip" and click Start Import.
6. When the import has completed, click Close Window.

Indexing the Sample Catalog

After importing a product catalog, at also needs to be indexed.

1. In Commerce Manager, select Administration, System Settings and then Search Index.
2. Click Rebuild Index to index the catalog for the first time. The Build Index option is used for future updates when you import the same catalog again and only want to index the changes.

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