Manage your product catalog for international selling.
Simplify global catalog management with Zonos Catalog's intuitive Dashboard. Consolidate product details often missed by ecommerce platforms but needed for the most accurate landed cost calculations, international shipping labels, and customs compliance.
You can create, import, and modify products directly in Dashboard or through the Catalog API.
Catalog simplifies the hassle of managing your catalog by centralizing all of your product information in one place. With all of your product details in Catalog, you can accurately and effortlessly utilize your product details to simplify your cross-border shipping logistics. Catalog allows you to ensure that all your product details are accurately accounted for when generating a landed cost quote, helping you correctly assess duties and taxes and ensure a smooth international customs experience for your customers.
One of the key benefits of Catalog is that it can help you overcome limitations from other ecommerce platforms. For example, platforms like Shopify may not provide product dimensions, while BigCommerce may not include HS code or country of origin functionality. With Catalog, you can ensure that all necessary product fields and functionality are accessible and utilized, avoiding any limitations from your platform's catalog.
You don't need to fill out all product fields in Catalog, just those missing from your ecommerce platform. Catalog can supplement any product information, even if you only want to use a single field. For example, suppose you want to use Catalog for country-specific HS codes because your ecommerce platform only supports universal HS codes. In that case, you can utilize Catalog's country-specific HS code(s) and the SKU or Product ID to reference and override your existing product information.
Catalog manages the following product information:
Product identifiers: SKU and product ID
Product details: Name, description, image URL, country of origin, price, retail price, currency, brand, and material
Once you have all of your desired product details in Catalog by creating or importing your products, you can utilize that respective product information in a myriad of ways, including the following:
Storing and overriding product details, most commonly—weight, product dimensions, HS codes, and country of origin
Applying bulk restrictions globally or to specified countries
Excise duty product requirements
For merchants selling alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22 products), Catalog supports additional measurement fields required for excise duty calculations in Canada and most EU countries. Learn more about excise duty requirements and setup.
Zonos Catalog offers the flexibility to use either a SKU or a product ID to create, identify, and reference your products, depending on your preference. Before creating any catalog items, it is recommended that you ensure your item key is set to your preference. By default, SKU is set as the item key.
Note: For Shopify users utilizing the Shopify --> Zonos catalog sync, the product ID is the required item key preference because Zonos uses it to sync your Shopify and Zonos catalogs.
The only field required to create a Catalog item is a SKU or product ID depending on your item key preference. See a breakdown of each product field below:
Product details
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SKU
The code that identifies the product within your business.
Product ID
The product identifier, commonly the ID from your ecommerce platform.
Name
The name of your product.
Description
The full description of your product.
Customs description
Concise product description for the commercial invoice.
Image URL
The image URL for the product.
Country of origin
The country the product was manufactured in.
Price and currency
The price you're charging for the product and its currency. Catalog supports up to 3 price decimals, e.g., 104.999.
Retail price
The original price of the product before discounts. Displaying it alongside the base price (above) highlights the savings for customers. Ensure the retail price is higher than the base price to showcase the discount.
Brand
The product's brand.
Material
The main material or composition of your product.
Product type
Determines the nature of the product. Catalog supports the following product types: physical good (default), digital good (excludes items from the landed cost calculation), subscription, service, bundle item, and partial item.
Packing preference
Whether your product ships alone or can be consolidated with other products (most common).
Weight
The product's unit of measure and weight. Catalog supports the following weight units: Ounces, pounds, grams, and kilograms. A weight unit of measure is required when adding or editing a weight value. Catalog supports up to two weight decimals, e.g., 9.55.
Dimensions
The product's unit of measure and dimensions. Catalog supports the following dimensional units: Inches, feet, yards, millimeters, centimeters, and meters. A dimensional unit is required when adding or editing dimensional values. Catalog supports up to two dimensional decimals, e.g., 8.02.
Volume
The liquid volume of the product, typically measured in milliliters or liters. Required for excise duty calculations on alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Alcohol by volume
The percentage of alcohol content in the product. Required for excise duty calculations on alcoholic beverages.
Volumetric unit
The unit of measure for volume measurements (e.g., milliliters, liters). Required when adding volume values for excise duty calculations.
Restrict your product from being shipped to certain countries by specifying the countries where shipping is restricted. By utilizing this feature, you can prevent shoppers from purchasing certain products if their shipping address belongs to any of the restricted countries you have defined.
How it works
Catalog
Manage your product catalog for international selling.Simplify global catalog management with Zonos Catalog's intuitive Dashboard. Consolidate product details often missed by ecommerce platforms but needed for the most accurate landed cost calculations, international shipping labels, and customs compliance.
You can create, import, and modify products directly in Dashboard or through the Catalog API.
How Catalog can help your business
Catalog simplifies the hassle of managing your catalog by centralizing all of your product information in one place. With all of your product details in Catalog, you can accurately and effortlessly utilize your product details to simplify your cross-border shipping logistics. Catalog allows you to ensure that all your product details are accurately accounted for when generating a landed cost quote, helping you correctly assess duties and taxes and ensure a smooth international customs experience for your customers.
One of the key benefits of Catalog is that it can help you overcome limitations from other ecommerce platforms. For example, platforms like Shopify may not provide product dimensions, while BigCommerce may not include HS code or country of origin functionality. With Catalog, you can ensure that all necessary product fields and functionality are accessible and utilized, avoiding any limitations from your platform's catalog.
You don't need to fill out all product fields in Catalog, just those missing from your ecommerce platform. Catalog can supplement any product information, even if you only want to use a single field. For example, suppose you want to use Catalog for country-specific HS codes because your ecommerce platform only supports universal HS codes. In that case, you can utilize Catalog's country-specific HS code(s) and the SKU or Product ID to reference and override your existing product information.
Catalog manages the following product information:
Learn more about Catalog product fields.
Once you have all of your desired product details in Catalog by creating or importing your products, you can utilize that respective product information in a myriad of ways, including the following:
Excise duty product requirements
For merchants selling alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22 products), Catalog supports additional measurement fields required for excise duty calculations in Canada and most EU countries. Learn more about excise duty requirements and setup.
Item key preference
Zonos Catalog offers the flexibility to use either a SKU or a product ID to create, identify, and reference your products, depending on your preference. Before creating any catalog items, it is recommended that you ensure your item key is set to your preference. By default, SKU is set as the item key.
To view or change your item key preference:
Catalog product fields
The only field required to create a Catalog item is a SKU or product ID depending on your item key preference. See a breakdown of each product field below:
Product details
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