The first step of uploading a new product catalog to the platform is creating a product catalog schema. A schema is the organization or structure of the data in the product catalog and must be present in the platform before you send a full catalog file. It can consist of two or three lines of sample data and does not need to be a full product catalog file.
Follow these steps to create a product catalog scheme.
- Click DATASETS in the top navigation bar and then click Product Data.
- Click CREATE DATASET.
- Click Product Catalog in the Create Dataset Schema wizard, and then click NEXT.
- Name the product catalog and then click NEXT.
- Drag and drop the file into the upload area, and then wait for Monetate to validate the data.
- If no errors are detected, then click NEXT.
- If the file is missing information, an error message appears stating what data is missing. Revise the file, click RE-UPLOAD, and then drag and drop the revised file into the upload area.
- If no errors are detected, then click NEXT.
- Confirm that any custom attribute that you included in the file appears in the table and that the data type selected is correct, and then click CONFIRM AND CREATE.
Once the product schema and catalog upload to the platform, the new product catalog's details page loads. The PENDING status appears at the top-right of the file updates table until the platform finishes processing the product catalog.
Once processing is complete, the status shows how much time as elapsed since the product catalog was updated both at the top-right of the table and in the UPLOAD DATE column of that table. The number of rows in the processed file also now appears in the table.
When you need to modify the product catalog, you can upload full or partial updates using one of these three methods: