At Once Connected, we understand that efficient and accurate product management is crucial for your business. Let’s clarify the two types of catalogues within our system and how they can benefit you.
What is a Catalogue?
Simply put, a catalogue in Once Connected is your product database. It’s where you store and manage the product information you use to create quotations. You have complete control over the products included, allowing you to tailor your catalogue to your specific business needs.
Central Catalogues: Streamlining Your Product Management Through Community Collaboration
Central Catalogues represent a significant advancement in product management, leveraging the power of our user community. They provide a centralised, up-to-date repository of product information from multiple trade suppliers. With a simple tick of a box in Once Setup, you can enable or disable these catalogues, ensuring you always have access to the latest product data.
Key Advantages of Central Catalogues:
- Effortless, Community-Driven Updates: Product changes and updates are managed centrally, driven by user collaboration. If any Once Connected user identifies a necessary product update, it’s implemented and immediately available to everyone. This ensures our catalogues are constantly accurate and up-to-date.
- Complete Control: You retain full control over your product range. Enable or disable individual products and customise pricing with your own markups and discounts.
- Expanded Supplier Network: We’re continuously expanding our list of suppliers. Click HERE to see the current list of trade suppliers.
- Customisable Extras/Options: Whilst you are unable to add to the extras and options yourself, we can “generalise” your custom extras and options for inclusion in Central Catalogues, benefiting the entire Once Connected community.
- Flexible Options: Enable or disable specific extra groups to align with your business needs.
What if my suppliers are not in the central catalogue?
We’re committed to expanding our Central Catalogues. If your suppliers aren’t currently listed, simply email their price list (ideally in Excel or .onz format) to support@onceconnected.co.uk, and our team will add them.
Local Catalogues: A Legacy Feature
Local Catalogues, now only available to existing users, are similar to Central Catalogues but are managed individually by each user. While we’re not removing this feature, our long-term vision is to phase out Local Catalogues in favour of the more efficient and comprehensive Central Catalogues.
Central Catalogues: Understanding the strategic purpose?
We’re committed to supporting you through the transition to our Central Catalogues subscription. We recognise that change can sometimes raise questions, and we want to ensure you fully understand the strategic purpose behind this feature. To clarify its benefits and how it can enhance your business operations, we encourage you to read our recent article, which provides a comprehensive overview. CLICK HERE