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The product catalog in Commerce Engine is a collection of products and services that are available from your partnered Merchants. Active agreements in Partner Ecosystem Management allow the products and services to be resold. The product catalog lets you define different aspects of your offering, allowing you to mix and match the product availability, pricing, and access for improved customer acquisition rates. Using the product catalog enables you to creatively tailor the offering for different audiences and their needs. Once the product catalog is defined, you can bundle the offering as part of a subscription plan. Using Commerce Engine’s user-friendly Portal, you can manage all these aspects of your product catalog without IT involvement. The product catalog includes:
  • Product offering definitions that can later be sold as recurring subscription plans or purchases
  • Rate plans and consumption tiers for quantity-based license services
  • Billing plans allowing to schedule when, where, and how often to offer the product
  • Campaign discounts for promotional pricing
The Commerce Engine product catalog enables product pricing across multiple channels, and gives you the ability to easily define pricing at the product and billing plan levels. You can even mix business models, with support for subscriptions and one-time purchases. When planning the work process of your product catalog, consider whether you plan to reuse configurations for multiple products. A reusable hierarchy will allow you to support multiple offering without having to build supporting elements for each one. For example, reuse the billing plan schedules across different products by keeping them generic and not including price points.