Salesforce B2C Commerce 24.7 > Merchandising Your Site

Catalogs, Categories, and Products

A Salesforce B2C Commerce storefront implementation uses a Catalog, Category, and Product architecture to organize your storefront. Product data is stored in a catalog, and the stored product data is organized by categories.

  • Catalogs
    Your product data is stored in a catalog. A catalog is a collection of the products that you sell, organized into different categories.
  • Categories
    You create and organize categories and subcategories to organize and group products in your catalog and on your storefront. For example, an outdoors outfitter site uses Boots, Climbing Gear, and Outerwear categories to organize products on their storefront.
  • Products
    Products are the items and services you sell. All of your product data is stored in your base product catalog. Your base product catalog can also be your storefront catalog or you can create a separate storefront catalog. You organize a catalog by categories. Categories can act as the storefront navigation to your products. For a product or service to show on your storefront, it must be assigned to a category. You can create any number of catalog, category, and product scenarios to address your business needs.

Infocenter Retirement: On June 30, 2023, the Infocenter was retired, and documentation currently hosted on the Infocenter will be published to Salesforce Help, Commerce Cloud Developer Center, and Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Documentation Resources. For more information, see the release note.