Introduction
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce catalogs identify products that you can offer in your B2B online stores. You can identify the online stores that the products are offered in, add products that you want to include, and enhance product offerings by adding merchandising details in the catalog. In this module, you’ll learn about the different options for catalogs, how to create a catalog from beginning to end, and customize them for your customers and business partners.
With Commerce catalogs, you can define different properties and information about them during creation. Catalog type allows you to set up the catalog to be specific to B2B scenarios, which then allows you to define navigation hierarchies, a customer hierarchy, and metadata for the catalog. The catalog-specific navigation hierarchy can have distinct category structures for their specific catalog. The catalog-specific attribute metadata contains details about the products in the catalogs. You can define values for attributes at the level of products that are assigned to a specific attribute category. Additionally, you can associate catalogs with more than one B2B online channel. For each channel, you can associate catalogs with specific B2B partners with customer hierarchies.
Price groups that are set up for promotions and prices, and that are specific to a given catalog, can enable products to be available to intended B2B organizations and can apply their preferred pricing and discounts. Price groups are a main reason to use and define catalogs for B2B sites. Also, B2B customers who order from catalogs can benefit from special prices and promotions, trade agreements, price adjustment journals, and advanced discounts that are linked to price groups and will be applied when customers order from specific catalogs. You’ll need to turn on the Enable use of multiple catalogs on retail channels feature in Dynamics 365 Commerce from the Feature Management workspace to use the features that are listed in this module.