How to create or save products to your catalog
This article will teach you how to create a private catalog of products in My Catalog, ensuring that you can design with the product standards that are important to you.
As an upgraded feature for all Pro, Unlimited, and Custom accounts, you have access to My Catalog where you can create and manage your own product data and design standards and share it across your team. Your digital catalog allows you and your team to track favorite products, create new ones, edit and manage data at scale from a central location, and of course share them to other accounts that you are a part of.
There are several ways to start building your catalog, and this article will walk you through each way, step-by-step. First, let's locate My Catalog in the navigation menu.
This feature is only accessible for all upgraded Pro, Unlimited, and Custom accounts.
Whenever products are shared to you from Canoa users in other accounts, they will appear in My Catalog.
All the ways to create your own Catalog on Canoa:
Save to My Catalog button while browsing the Products library
Save As Product icon within Canvas
Create Product button in My Catalog
Bulk import a .CSV file of product data into My Catalog - Table view
Save As Product from a link pasted in Canvas
Save products from the Public Catalogs:
Head to our Public Catalogs tab where 28,000+ global product specifications live full of Canoa-approved, real time data, aka our Products library. Here, you can filter by categories and use the search bar to find products that you need for your next project or mood board.
As you're browsing, you will find products that you will want to save for later, save as your favorites, and use in your Canvas digital mood boards. Here's how:
Click on that product, and the product details will appear on the right-side panel.
Select "Save to My Catalog" under the product's image.
The product you just saved will automatically appear in your My Catalog tab the next time you open it up.
Create a custom product in Canvas:
When you drag and drop your own image into Canvas, you are then able to create a custom product card from that image. After you click the Save As Product icon below the image, this product will automatically be saved in your Catalog.
Only upgraded Pro, Unlimited, and Custom accounts will be able to manage products they create in Canvas in My Catalog.
Fill in as much product data in available fields as you wish. You can even add a 2D vector drawing!
Your product will be automatically saved in your My Catalog the next time you refer back to that tab.
Create a product from My Catalog:
A quick and easy way to add products into your Catalog that are not available in the Products database is through the Create Product button within My Catalog.
Open My Catalog in the navigation menu.
Click on
Create Productin the upper right corner.The Drawing Editor window will be launched automatically.
Fill in as much product data in the available fields as you wish. You can even add a 2D vector drawing! Learn more about this step here.
Your product will be automatically saved in My Catalog the next time you refer back to that tab.
Import your product data from a spreadsheet:
Put My Catalog to use in Canvas:
After you have saved your favorite products to your Catalog from Canoa’s public library, imported your own spreadsheet of product data into My Catalog, or created custom products within a Canvas, referring back to My Catalog to start designing is easy.
When you are designing and are ready to add your favorite products into a Canvas, My Catalog is found in the icon in the bottom right corner of Canvas - saving you time from searching through thousands of skus.
Click the My Catalog icon.
The My Catalog tab will be automatically open.
Search or scroll through this window to find your products.
Drag and drop them into your Canvas to start designing!
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