Catalog Functionality for Multi - Tier

Introduction

The article explains how a Distributor can effectively manage the product catalog for Sellers, ensuring that the Seller Platform displays the correct products and prices.

1. The “My Products” link under the catalog will redirect users to product management: producthub.appxite.com.
If the user does not have the product manager role and does not have access to producthub.appxite.com, the following message will appear when trying to access it:
"No Access! Sorry, but you don't have access to this page".

2. My Catalog – Directs to your Catalog. Products are organized in different categories and each product can be placed in more than 1 category. 

3. Partner Prices – Directs you to Partner prices section, where you can create new price tier, or choose to edit existing price tier from available list. 

4. Partner Catalogs - Through this section you can edit the way the Catalog is displayed to your partners. Allowing you to group your Partners into custom catalogs (e.g. New partners or Azure power-users), and tailor your product catalog for each Partner catalog. 

5. Customer Catalogs - Through this section you can edit the way the Catalog is displayed to your customers. Allowing you to group your Customers into custom catalogs (e.g. New customers or Azure power-users), and tailor your product catalog for each Customer catalog. 

6. Customer Prices – Directs you to customer prices sections where you can create price for customers.

7. Categories – All Products from the Catalog can be organized into categories, that are defined by the distributor.

The Distributor is able to manage the product catalog for each of its Sellers. By doing so, the Seller Platform will reflect the products and buying prices determined by the Distributor. 

You can see the "Updated by" and "Updated date" for each catalog in the list of Partner catalogs to track changes.
Select the Catalog name for which you want to edit the Catalog or Create new:

Add name for the Catalog.
Copy catalog from existing list.

Catalog is organized in the following way: 

8. Products - You can see the list of available products on the platform.
9. Organizations - You can view the number of organizations assigned to this catalog. By selecting the "Organization", the page will open in a new window. In this window, you can also see the organization's status, name, external ID, country, and the price tier to which the organization has been assigned

10. Vendors - You can see the list of vendors that have products available in the catalog.

11. Delete - The product catalog can be deleted. Sellers using the deleted catalog will continue functioning. However, it will be impossible to manage deleted catalogs or add products for them.
A new catalog with the same name as the deleted one can be created.

12. Select All products to see all the available products. 

13. Not Published Products will not be displayed in the Catalog unless you will add them into the Categories.

Filter - If tags are created (in "Partner Catalogs" →  "Edit catalog" →  "Edit Tags") for the products, you can then filter products based on the tags. In more detail read the article How to Add custom Tags to products?