Catalogs, Categories & Products Overview. OmniChannel Commerce uses an association of 3 data groups to determine members of a catalog - catalogs, categories, and products. The categories are the "middle association" that links products to catalogs. This allows greater flexibility in data organization especially for multi-channel businesses with large databases. It works well for smaller businesses as well.

• Catalogs and categories as the primary tools for organizing products
• Important tools for managing multiple websites with multiple product lines
• Tagging products with categories
• Associating categories to catalogs
• Each catalog has one or more categories assigned to it
• Products appear in catalogs based on their tagged categories, which in turn are members of catalog(s)
• Use of meaningful naming conventions