e catalog
Browsing through your e-Catalogue
You can develop your catalogue to be browsed online manyfold, such as:
(1) browsing by categories, just as they are stored in the back-end catalogue;
(2) browsing by filters: via a dashboard, to be graphically designed ad-hoc, through which the user selects the product features that filter a subset of products, independently of the categories they belong to;
(3) browsing by wizard, to be graphically designed ad-hoc, through which the user is guided step by step to a subset of products corresponding to the features he/she selects.
Each product sheet can be also subject to comments by users.
In E-Commerce systems, like online shops, there is a need to present a variety of products to online customers. These products can be unrelated like food and books, or related in a hierarchical classification structure. The product information needs to be organized in a way that enables the customer to do searches, matches, and comparisons between different products based on some common product attributes. The common solution for this is to represent all products in a store in a catalog, either in a print format, or in case of online store, an electronic catalog.
To simplify the catalog building process and customer browsing of a catalog, products are often classified into categories where similar products that share common attributes are in one broad category. An example would be footwear, where each product in this category shares some common attributes like size, material, color, gender (male, female, or children), and then can have more specialized sub-categories like sports footwear.
Another example would be an appliances category where all have more specialized sub-categories like sports footwear. Products share common attributes as an operating voltage, color, energy consumption, dimensions (height, width and length), and further have some special sub-categories like refrigerators.
An online store
You can develop your catalogue to be browsed online manyfold, such as:
(1) browsing by categories, just as they are stored in the back-end catalogue;
(2) browsing by filters: via a dashboard, to be graphically designed ad-hoc, through which the user selects the product features that filter a subset of products, independently of the categories they belong to;
(3) browsing by wizard, to be graphically designed ad-hoc, through which the user is guided step by step to a subset of products corresponding to the features he/she selects.
Each product sheet can be also subject to comments by users.
In E-Commerce systems, like online shops, there is a need to present a variety of products to online customers. These products can be unrelated like food and books, or related in a hierarchical classification structure. The product information needs to be organized in a way that enables the customer to do searches, matches, and comparisons between different products based on some common product attributes. The common solution for this is to represent all products in a store in a catalog, either in a print format, or in case of online store, an electronic catalog.
To simplify the catalog building process and customer browsing of a catalog, products are often classified into categories where similar products that share common attributes are in one broad category. An example would be footwear, where each product in this category shares some common attributes like size, material, color, gender (male, female, or children), and then can have more specialized sub-categories like sports footwear.
Another example would be an appliances category where all have more specialized sub-categories like sports footwear. Products share common attributes as an operating voltage, color, energy consumption, dimensions (height, width and length), and further have some special sub-categories like refrigerators.
An online store