Catalog

Everything you need to know about Catalog Management functionality and best practices.

64 articles in this collection
Written by Michael Goldmeier, Ziggy, Juliet Bishop and 2 others

Most common fields for import, export, and quick edit

These can be used for your Zentail templates

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Use Internal Attributes

How to create and edit custom attributes that are internal to Zentail

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Catalog Overview

Learn the basics of the Catalog view on Zentail

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Catalog Filters Explained

What the catalog filters mean and how to use them to optimize your catalog.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How and When to Use Channel Attributes

What to do if you can't find an attribute you want to use

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Export SKUs in a Filter / View

How to easily export SKUs from the Catalog View filters

Written by Lenore Studt
Updated over a week ago

Channel SKU Overrides

Learn how to sync your Zentail SKUs with channel SKUs that aren't exact matches

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Delete or ReSKU a SKU in Zentail

How to remove a SKU from your Zentail catalog or replace it with another SKU value

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Adding UPCs to SKUs

Learn how to add UPCs to SKUs in Zentail, and learn why UPCs are a key for success.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Purchase UPCs

Helpful and reputable resources for sourcing and purchasing UPCs

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Quick Edit

Doing Cool Things with Quick Edit and Bulk Actions

This article explains some additional uses of QuickEdit and Bulk Actions

Written by Jim Wilson
Updated over a week ago

QuickEdit Catalog View

How to use the QuickEdit catalog view in Zentail

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Using QuickEdit to Audit Product Groups

QuickEdit is a handy way to troubleshoot variations errors, or auditing your product data in variant groups

Written by Lenore Studt
Updated over a week ago

Using QuickEdit to Initiate Bulk Actions

Combine two powerful Zentail features to make sweeping changes to your catalog easily

Written by Juliet Bishop
Updated over a week ago

Using QuickEdit to Manage Pricing

How to use QuickEdit to efficiently manage your pricing, from setting up the repricer to managing channel price overrides

Written by Juliet Bishop
Updated over a week ago

SKU Management

Edit SKU

This article explains the basics of the Edit SKU interface.

Written by Jim Wilson
Updated over a week ago

Master SKUs and Parent SKUs Explained

This article will explain the differences and interactions between Master and Parent SKUs

Written by Jim Wilson
Updated over a week ago

How to Create SKUs

This article shows you how to create a SKU in Zentail via the quick SKU creation interface in the Catalog and via Bulk Import.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Edit a Product in Zentail

How to change or make edits to product data for a product or SKU in your Zentail catalog.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Clone a SKU

This article explains how to clone or make a copy of a SKU and the situations where you would want to do so

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Best Practices for Creating a SKU value

Crafting concise and consistent identifiers

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

SMART Types: What They Are and How to Use Them

SMART Types are Zentail categories that are optimized for and pre-mapped to all major channels.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

List - Don't List

What information Zentail sends to channels when a SKU is set to list or de-listed from Zentail.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Set SKUs to List

This Article shows you how to set SKUs to list to each channel.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Using Labels on Zentail

Label your SKUs to make them easy to identify, filter for, and include in business rules.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Managing Your Item Cost

Learn how to view and edit the item cost for your products

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Viewing the Product History of your SKUs

Track changes to price, inventory, title, and more.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Editing, Revising or Modifying SKU Values

You cannot change the value of a SKU once it is created. Learn how to Clone and Archive SKUs.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Use Advanced Options to Set Channel Overrides for a Specific Channel

Change your product specifically for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, etc. through the Zentail software interface

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Product Images: Best Practices

Help your catalog's products stand out with these marketplace guidelines for product photos.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Image Management on Zentail

Learn how to add images through the user interface and through the Import / Export feature as well as how to reorder images in Zentail

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Archive or Unarchive SKUs

Archiving a SKU on Zentail is the closest thing available to deleting a SKU on Zentail. SKUs can be archived or unarchived at any point.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Resolve: Product does not have complete shipping dimensions, shipping label generation may not work correctly.

How to add package weight and dimensions for your products.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Special Product Considerations

Used Product Considerations

Things to keep in mind for selling used products in each marketplace

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Managing UPC Exempt Products in Zentail

How to create, sync, and apply for UPC / GTIN exemption on Walmart Marketplace and Amazon

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Prohibited Products

What products are prohibited on the marketplaces?

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Selling Certified Refurbished Products

How to set up, create, and sell products with a condition of Renewed or certified refurbished in Zentail for Amazon and other channels

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Define Hazmat or Hazardous Materials

Learn how to declare hazmat levels on your products, especially important for FBA products

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Prop 65 Management

How to make sure your product data is prop65 compliant

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Kits, Bundles and Aliases

How to Create and Manage Kits, Packs and Bundles

Kit SKUs are SKUs that contain multiple units of an underlying SKU or one or more units of multiple underlying SKUs.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Alias SKUs and How to Create Them

Alias SKUs inherit their inventory from an existing SKU. Learn how to Create alias SKUs.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

How to Unalias SKUs

Outlines the steps for removing alias relationships on a per SKU basis or in bulk through an import

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Can an FBA SKU Also Be an Alias SKU?

How alias SKUs get updated and what would happen if you made an FBA SKU an alias SKU on Zentail

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Product Group Management

How to Create and Manage Product Groups

Learn how to create and manage product groups with variant SKUs and variation themes such as Size and Color.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Manage Different Variations Using Listing Splits

How to group products differently between channels

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Add a New SKU to a Product Group

How to create a new variation to your product group.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Fixing Groups with Duplicate Variations

How to troubleshoot and resolve duplicate variation issues on Zentail

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

How to Audit Your Product Groupings

Make sure your product groups are set up correctly before sending information to a channel.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Variant Specific Bullet Points

Learn how to send variant specific bullet points to Amazon and Walmart

Written by Juliet Bishop
Updated over a week ago

How to Use Swatch Images

Swatch images are previews of child (variant) SKUs in product groups. Learn how to set and use swatch images in Zentail.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

SEO Best Practices

SEO Best Practices: Meta Title, Meta Description and Tags

Use Meta Title, Meta Description, Tags, and Keywords for Search Engine Optimization.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Writing Descriptive and Useful Tags for your Products

Learn how to optimize tags for your products in Zentail.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Managing and Sending Keywords to Your Channels Using Tags

This article explains how the Tags field in Zentail allows you to manage and send keywords to your channels

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Pricing Management

How to Manage Pricing

This article describes how to enter, edit, and manage your prices in Zentail through the user interface and through the import feature.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

How to Set Promotional Pricing or a Scheduled Sale

Set up your Promotional Pricing to put your products on sale for each marketplace.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

Setting Channel Specific Promotions

Schedule promotions or Scheduled Sales for specific channels or Marketplaces

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

How to Set Price Overrides for Specific Channels

Enable specific prices for different channels, like eBay, Shopify, or BigCommerce, that differ from your regular item price.

Written by Michael Goldmeier
Updated over a week ago

How to Manage Minimum and Maximum Prices

This article shows you how to add in a Minimum and Maximum Prices to activate Zentail's repricers.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

How to Implement MAP (Minimum Advertised Pricing)

Learn how to send MAP and implement add to cart to see price on Amazon and eBay.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Listing Error Management

Using the Listing Status Page

How to use the Listing Status page to target Needs Attention SKUs and get more products listed

Written by Lenore Studt
Updated over a week ago

Understanding, Managing, and Fixing Errors

Learn how to use Zentail's error detection features in order to understand and resolve listing errors.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Reading Feed Messages on Zentail

Learn about the data that Zentail sends to Amazon, Walmart and other marketplaces

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Product Group Errors on eBay

How to manage your eBay product groups.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago

Missing Attributes in the Catalog

Learn how to filter your catalog to take action on SKUs that are missing attributes such as Title, Image, Item Price and Smart Type.

Written by Ziggy
Updated over a week ago