Enterprise Catalog Management
Managing a large product catalog is a full-time job that requires specialized expertise, constant attention, and significant resources. For enterprise e-commerce operations, the complexity multiplies exponentially with multiple channels, markets, languages, and constantly evolving platform requirements. Our Managed Catalog Services provide a complete, hands-off solution that transforms your product data into a competitive advantage.
Unlike point solutions or DIY tools, our managed service combines advanced AI technology with experienced human oversight. Every product in your catalog benefits from our sophisticated categorization algorithms, trained on billions of product classifications across all major e-commerce platforms. But technology alone is not enough for enterprise requirements. That is why each client is assigned a dedicated account team that understands your business, your products, and your specific challenges.
The result is a catalog operation that runs like a well-oiled machine: new products are categorized accurately within hours, descriptions are optimized for search and conversion, images meet platform requirements, and your feeds are always compliant and up-to-date. You get the benefits of a world-class catalog team without the overhead of hiring, training, and managing one yourself.
Our clients typically see meaningful improvements in key metrics within the first 90 days. Product visibility increases as proper categorization improves search rankings. Conversion rates climb as enriched descriptions and optimized images better communicate product value. Returns decrease as accurate specifications set proper customer expectations. And team productivity soars as they are freed from tedious catalog maintenance to focus on strategic initiatives.
Complete Categorization
Expert categorization across all major platforms including Google Shopping, Amazon, Facebook, and 50+ marketplace taxonomies. Your products appear in the right categories everywhere.
Content Enrichment
Transform basic product data into compelling, SEO-optimized content. We write descriptions, extract attributes, and ensure completeness across all required fields.
Image Optimization
Ensure all product images meet platform requirements. We handle resizing, background removal, quality enhancement, and multi-channel formatting.
Feed Management
Continuous monitoring and optimization of your product feeds. We catch errors before they impact visibility and keep your feeds in perfect compliance.
Performance Analytics
Regular reporting on catalog health, optimization opportunities, and competitive benchmarks. Data-driven insights to continuously improve performance.
Dedicated Team
Your own account manager and catalog specialists who understand your business. Single point of contact for all catalog-related needs.
How AI-Powered Categorization Works
Our managed catalog service leverages state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to process, categorize, and enrich your product data at scale. Understanding how this technology works helps illustrate why our service delivers consistent, high-quality results that manual processes simply cannot match.
At the core of our system is a sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) engine that analyzes product titles, descriptions, attributes, and even images to understand what each product truly is. This goes far beyond simple keyword matching. Our models understand context, synonyms, industry terminology, and the subtle differences between similar product types. When processing a product like "Women's Merino Wool Crew Neck Sweater - Navy Blue", our system recognizes not just the category (Women's Sweaters) but also extracts attributes like material (Merino Wool), style (Crew Neck), and color (Navy Blue) automatically.
The AI system has been trained on billions of product categorizations across hundreds of taxonomies. This includes Google Product Taxonomy with over 6,000 categories, Amazon's extensive browse node system, Facebook Commerce categories, and dozens of marketplace-specific taxonomies. Because our models have seen virtually every product type and edge case, they can handle the complexity and variation that trips up simpler systems.
Natural Language Processing
Advanced NLP models understand product semantics, context, and intent rather than relying on simple keyword matching. This enables accurate categorization even with incomplete or poorly formatted input data.
Computer Vision
Image analysis algorithms extract visual features, identify product types, detect attributes like color and pattern, and verify image quality compliance with platform requirements.
Multi-Modal Fusion
By combining text and image analysis, our system achieves higher accuracy than either alone. When text is ambiguous, images provide clarity, and vice versa.
Continuous Learning
Our models improve continuously through feedback loops. Human expert corrections and new data patterns are incorporated to enhance accuracy over time.
Taxonomy Mapping
Intelligent cross-taxonomy mapping ensures products are correctly categorized across all target platforms, handling the nuances and differences between each system.
Quality Assurance
Confidence scoring flags uncertain classifications for human review, ensuring that edge cases receive expert attention while routine categorizations proceed automatically.
While AI handles the heavy lifting, human expertise remains essential for quality assurance and handling edge cases. Every client's catalog is reviewed by trained specialists who understand product taxonomy, e-commerce requirements, and industry-specific nuances. This human-in-the-loop approach ensures that unusual products, new categories, and complex classifications receive the attention they need while maintaining the efficiency and scale that AI provides.
Managed Catalog Workflow
Data Processing Pipeline
Our managed catalog service operates through a sophisticated data processing pipeline designed for reliability, scalability, and accuracy. Understanding this pipeline helps illustrate the depth of processing your products receive and why our service delivers consistently superior results.
The pipeline begins with data ingestion, where product information flows into our system through multiple channels. Whether you are using direct API integration, SFTP file transfers, platform connectors, or manual uploads, our system normalizes and validates incoming data to ensure consistent processing. Data validation checks catch common issues like missing required fields, malformed SKUs, or invalid image URLs before they can cause downstream problems.
Next comes the enrichment phase, where our AI and human teams work together to enhance your product data. This includes categorization across all target taxonomies, attribute extraction and standardization, description optimization for search and conversion, and image analysis and compliance checking. Each product moves through specialized processing modules designed for different data types and enrichment tasks.
Quality assurance is built into every stage of the pipeline. Automated checks verify categorization accuracy, attribute completeness, and content quality. Confidence scoring identifies products that need human review, while random sampling ensures overall quality standards are maintained. Your dedicated account team monitors pipeline health and addresses any issues proactively.
Finally, the output stage delivers your enriched product data to all target destinations. This includes formatted feeds for advertising platforms, marketplace listings, your own e-commerce platform, and any other channels you use. Our feed management system continuously monitors delivery status and feed health, alerting your team to any issues requiring attention.
Data Ingestion
Flexible data import through API, SFTP, platform connectors, or manual upload. Automatic validation and normalization ensure clean data enters the pipeline regardless of source format.
AI Enrichment
Machine learning models categorize products, extract attributes, and identify optimization opportunities. Parallel processing handles large catalogs efficiently.
Human Review
Expert reviewers handle edge cases, verify complex categorizations, and ensure quality standards. Human intelligence complements AI capabilities.
Quality Assurance
Multi-layer quality checks verify accuracy and completeness. Automated testing catches issues before they reach your feeds.
Feed Generation
Automatic formatting for all target platforms. Real-time updates ensure your feeds always reflect current product data.
Monitoring & Reporting
Continuous pipeline monitoring with detailed reporting on processing volumes, accuracy metrics, and feed health status.
Integration Methods
Our managed catalog service integrates seamlessly with your existing technology stack. We support multiple integration methods to accommodate different technical requirements and preferences. Your dedicated account team handles the integration process, but understanding the options helps you choose the best approach for your business.
For real-time integration needs, our RESTful API provides programmatic access to all catalog management functions. You can submit products for processing, retrieve enriched data, manage feeds, and access analytics programmatically. The API supports both synchronous operations for immediate results and asynchronous processing for large batches. Comprehensive documentation, SDKs for popular languages, and dedicated integration support ensure smooth implementation.
Platform connectors provide turnkey integration with popular e-commerce systems. Pre-built connectors for Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and other major platforms enable rapid deployment without custom development. These connectors handle data synchronization automatically, keeping your catalog enriched without manual intervention.
For enterprise clients with existing data infrastructure, we support integration with leading Product Information Management (PIM) systems including Akeneo, Salsify, Syndigo, and inRiver. These integrations enable our enrichment services to complement your existing PIM workflows, adding AI-powered categorization and optimization to your established processes.
REST API
Full-featured API for custom integrations
Shopify
Native app integration
Magento
Extension marketplace plugin
SFTP/S3
Batch file transfer
PIM Systems
Akeneo, Salsify, Syndigo
Webhooks
Real-time event notifications
API Integration Examples
Our REST API makes it easy to integrate managed catalog services into your existing workflows. Below are examples showing how to submit products for categorization and retrieve enriched data. These examples demonstrate the simplicity and power of our API.
# Python example: Submit products for categorization import requests import json # Your API credentials API_KEY = "your_api_key_here" API_ENDPOINT = "https://api.productcategorization.com/v2" # Product data to categorize products = [ { "sku": "WM-SW-001", "title": "Women's Merino Wool Crew Neck Sweater - Navy", "description": "Premium 100% merino wool sweater...", "brand": "Acme Apparel", "price": "89.99", "image_url": "https://example.com/images/sweater.jpg" } ] # Submit for processing response = requests.post( f"{API_ENDPOINT}/products/categorize", headers={ "Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json" }, json={ "products": products, "taxonomies": ["google", "amazon", "facebook"], "enrich": True } ) # Process response result = response.json() print(f"Job ID: {result['job_id']}") print(f"Status: {result['status']}") # Retrieve results (for async processing) job_result = requests.get( f"{API_ENDPOINT}/jobs/{result['job_id']}", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"} ).json() for product in job_result['products']: print(f"SKU: {product['sku']}") print(f"Google Category: {product['categories']['google']}") print(f"Extracted Attributes: {product['attributes']}")
How Our Managed Service Works
Our onboarding process is designed to minimize disruption while maximizing impact. Within 30 days, your catalog operation will be running smoothly under our management. The process begins with a comprehensive discovery phase where we analyze your current catalog, identify issues, and develop a customized optimization roadmap tailored to your specific business needs and goals.
Discovery & Audit
We analyze your current catalog, identify issues, and develop a comprehensive optimization roadmap. This includes competitive analysis and benchmark establishment to understand where improvements will have the greatest impact.
Integration & Setup
Our team integrates with your existing systems whether that is Shopify, Magento, custom platforms, PIMs, or ERPs. We establish automated data flows and quality gates to ensure smooth ongoing operations.
Initial Optimization
The heavy lifting begins. We process your entire catalog through our AI-powered enrichment pipeline, with human review ensuring quality at every step. You will see improvements within days as optimized products begin going live.
Ongoing Management
New products are processed within hours. Regular audits catch and fix issues proactively. Monthly reports keep you informed of progress and opportunities while your team focuses on growing the business.
"Switching to the managed catalog service was transformative for our business. We went from struggling with constant feed errors and inconsistent data to having a perfectly optimized catalog that practically runs itself. Our team can finally focus on growth instead of data cleanup."
Service Plans
Transparent pricing based on catalog size. All plans include our full suite of managed services with dedicated team support. Each plan is designed to provide comprehensive catalog management appropriate for businesses at different scales and with different complexity requirements.
- Full categorization across platforms
- Description optimization
- Image compliance checking
- Weekly feed monitoring
- Monthly reporting
- Email support
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- Dedicated account manager
- Daily feed monitoring
- Custom attribute extraction
- Competitive benchmarking
- Priority support (4hr SLA)
- Everything in Professional, plus:
- Dedicated team (2+ specialists)
- Real-time monitoring
- Custom integrations
- White-label options
- 24/7 support (1hr SLA)
Frequently Asked Questions
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