Creating a new product catalog
To create a new product catalog in the Photoslurp dashboard, select Products in the left-hand menu and click Create A New Catalog, see below:
Configuring the product catalog
In turn, the Add new catalog page will appear:
- Configure the catalog name.
- Enter a description. (optional)
- Enter the URL of the product feed that you configured in the previous step of this guide.
- Select the "Fetch now" checkbox to make that the Photoslurp servers download and import the product feed upon saving.
- When the "Do you want to hide product variants?" checkbox is selected, only the first product pertaining to an identified group will appear in the Photoslurp catalog listing and in search suggestions inside the product assignment form.
- Click "Create catalog" button to finish.
Note: Please allow a few minutes for our servers to download and process the product feed - that's if you've checked the "Fetch now" checkbox.
Catalog languages and language fallback
The Photoslurp platform will automatically detect all of the available languages in the product feed. We do, however, highly recommend configuring a fall-back language for your product catalog. What this means is that if the widgets request a language that is not available, the default product feed will always be returned. To do this, click on the Update catalog button:
The product catalogs configuration page will then be displayed, which now has the Default product language field available. Here, you must choose the default language code among those shown.
Finally, to enable catalog auto-updates, the auto export feature as specified in Step 2 would need to have been activated.