Creating a Virtual Catalog

A virtual catalog is a catalog that references the product data in one or more base catalogs. Products are represented only once in the database, regardless of how many virtual catalogs they appear in.

There are three primary uses for virtual catalogs:

• To aggregate multiple catalogs so they appear as one catalog to users.
• To price products in multiple currencies.
• To provide special pricing, or subsets of products, for specified groups of users.

You can create up to 10,000 virtual catalogs. When you create a virtual catalog, you specify:

• The name of the catalog.
• The currency that will be used to price products (for example, USD).

After you create a virtual catalog, you add inclusion rules that specify:

• The products and categories in the base catalogs that you want to include in the virtual catalog. You can include up to one million products in a virtual catalog.
• The price rules you want to apply to the products and categories. You can create up to 10,000 price rules in one catalog.

For information about including a base catalog in a virtual catalog, see Including Base Catalogs in a Virtual Catalog. For information about adding categories to a virtual catalog, see Adding Categories to a Virtual Catalog.

Notes

• A virtual catalog can include content from up to 80 base catalogs; it cannot include content from other virtual catalogs.
• You can edit virtual catalog properties to specify the default and reporting languages. You do not need to edit the base catalog.

This section contains:

• Creating a New Virtual Catalog
• Including Base Catalogs in a Virtual Catalog
• Rebuilding a Virtual Catalog
• Adding Price Rules to a Virtual Catalog
• Adding Categories to a Virtual Catalog

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