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Catalog, taxonomy, import and publishing terms as this documentation uses them.

Terms as this documentation uses them.

The four families of terms and the order they appear in: import brings rows in, catalog is what you hold, taxonomy decides what each marketplace requires, and publishing is what leaves for a channel THE FOUR FAMILIES, IN THE ORDER THEY HAPPEN Import getting rows in Feed, source Journey, run Mapping, skip rule Linked file Catalog what you hold Platform Product Product, SKU Variant Your category Taxonomy what they require Product type Marketplace category Attribute, schema Version Publishing what leaves Listing Submission Job Feed outcome The one distinction worth fixing early Your category is a folder you made; a marketplace category is theirs and decides required fields. Two trees, and only one ever leaves.
Roughly the order these words turn up in.

Catalog

  • SKU — your identifier for a stocked item. The join key for everything: imports, price and stock updates and marketplace sync all match on it.
  • Platform Product — one record per SKU for your account, holding stock and the marketplace ids that SKU already has. See Platform Product vs Product.
  • Product — one record per SKU per marketplace and country: that channel's content, category and sync state.
  • Variant — a child of a parent product, expressed in a feed via parent-sku and parentage.

Taxonomy

  • Product type — a node in a marketplace's taxonomy. Decides which fields a listing must carry.
  • Product type version — that product type's field list as at one taxonomy import. See Product types and taxonomy versions.
  • Category folder — one of your own categories. Organisational; never sent to a marketplace.

Import

  • Feed — a file or endpoint MarketplaceHub reads products from. CSV or JSON. See Feeds and formats.
  • Base file — in a multi-file import, the file with one row per product. Others link to it. See Linking several files.
  • Journey — one configured import: its source, mapping, filters and schedule. Re-running a journey re-fetches rather than re-uploads.
  • Skip rule — a condition that drops a row before it becomes a product. See Filtering rows.

Publishing

  • Connection — an authorised link to one marketplace account. Can be a source, a publishing target, or both. See Marketplace integrations.
  • Publish — sending reviewed products to a marketplace. Creates a listing, or revises the existing one when the SKU already carries an id for that marketplace.
  • Master store — a connected store treated as the source of truth for price and stock, propagated outward to your other channels.