Audience: Suppliers
Suppliers setting up their account should review the basics for setting up and working with catalog/item data. The product feed you provide to your retail trading partners is meant to give them basic item data so they can export to their ecommerce, PIM, or other back-end system.
Note: The basic Catalog/Inventory templates described below are different from advanced catalog services which is used to view your retail trading partner's catalog requirements. For more information about using advanced catalog services, see Advanced Catalog Services for Suppliers.
Follow these steps to make sure you successfully set up your item data the first time:
- Make sure you understand the data your retail trading partners need. Do they need descriptions, UPC, or your category structure? Do they need images (if so, provide high res images)? For more information on images, see Working with Product Images.
- Review the fields that are part of the dsco.io Product Object (Rithum Data Schema). The only fields Rithum requires are title and sku, but as suggested, you may want to provide more.
- Download and use the Rithum spreadsheet or .csv template (https://app.dsco.io/inventory/upload) or use our mapping tool (Using the Data Mapper), to upload your .xls, .csv, or .tab file to the platform. If you update your item data on a frequent basis, create a batch automation job: Creating an automated job
- Once you upload catalog data into your account, it will become visible to your trading partners. If you have thousands or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, it is strongly recommended to pass through your category structure so retailers can sort through your items.
Using Rithum assortments to share data
Once your items are in the platform, you have the ability to create and copy your item into assortments. With assortments, you can assign trading partners access to specific assortments, thus controlling what items they can view and sell.
One way suppliers use this feature is to create a Master Assortment (with all items), a SMB assortment (with a subset of items), and an assortment for a specific large retailer that might have items that are exclusively for them.
To assign an assortment to a retailer, select Trading Partner and select the Settings icon for the retailer to which you want assign an assortment. At the bottom of the page, you can choose which assortment to assign to the retailer.
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