You can select products to sell in a hosted store using the Catalog Filter. To open the Catalog Filter, do the following:
- Open the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
From the Merchandise menu, click Catalog Filter.
From the Products menu, click Catalog Filter.
The Catalog Filter page displays. If this is the first time you are accessing the Catalog Filter, there may be a delay before the catalog tree displays on the page. If you do not see this menu, then your logon ID does not have the appropriate authority to perform this task. Contact your Site Administrator.
Tip: If you would like to include some categories within a share catalog for sale at your store, then the best approach is to include the entire catalog and mark it at 0% off. Next, include and adjust all the categories that you want to sell, and then exclude all other top level categories. This process avoids having empty categories visible in the store front (that is, displaying categories with no no products beneath the category node).
You can use the Catalog Filter to do the following:
- Include categories for sale in the hosted store.
- Exclude categories and products (including SKUs, packages and bundles) from being sold in the hosted store. The category or product you want to exclude must belong to a category that has been already included for sale in the hosted store.
- Apply a percentage price adjustment (markup or markdown) on the master catalog price for categories.
- View the price customers of the hosted store will be charged for products based on price adjustments that are applied to the products.
- Change a percentage price adjustment on a category.
You cannot use the Catalog Filter to set a fixed price for products or to change the price for products with a fixed price. To perform these tasks, use the Product Management tools in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
Note: If a category's location has been changed in the catalog asset store, resellers must cancel the category's settings, save the changes, then set the product and SKU adjustment again using the Catalog Filter, to ensure that there is no change in price or availability in reseller products or SKUs. Resellers must also do the same for any subcategories within the changed category.