The Product Catalog is where you can control all your products and match them to competing ones. Product Catalog includes all unique products from yours and your competitors' webshop. Product Matches are explained in detail here.
Product Catalog is a table that includes all eCommerce fields of your your extracted products, such as:
If you have bought Price Monitoring -module; By default, Product Catalog is filtered to show your own products. You can change this viewmode from the upper-left corner of the product-table. If you have not bought the Price Monitoring -module, the table will show "All products" by default.
1. Matches
Indicates if your product has been matched to competing products. Unmatched means that there are no matches made. Matched indicated that you have confirmed a match with one or several competing products.
2. Product Name
Product Name tells you what is the name of the product on the extracted website. Product Name is also used as a basis for Product Matching.
3. Product Category
All competing product categories are marked as "Uncategorized" until they are matched, once the products are matched the name of the category they belong to automatically changes to the same as the match group owner´s category name. Note that it´s important to have a proper categorization for your own products at Sniffie so please check that the categories of your reference data are the right ones before proceeding.
4. Website Name
The Website Name is the name of the website you extracted the pricing data from. This is automatically set by the extension based on the website URL you are extracting data from.
5. Product Image
Product Image hold the image of products as defined in the Sniffie extension.
6. Price
Product Price is product price listed at the latest data fetch.
7. Last updated
Last updated indicates when the the latest data fetch occurred, i.e. how fresh the data is. Note that sometimes products appear to not update, when in fact, the webstore does not sell them anymore.
8. Product page link
By clicking the Product page link you can navigate to the webshop's product page.
9. Custom columns
Note that it´s also possible to add custom fields to the catalog. Drag and drop to choose what columns are visible in your product catalog. Furthermore, you can also edit which columns and fields would you like to see in the catalog from the product catalog settings.
