> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://spreecommerce.org/docs/llms.txt
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# Catalogs

> Give a company or customer group its own product range, prices and order terms.

A catalog is a commercial agreement. It decides what an audience sees, what they pay, and how much they must order — the B2B equivalent of a negotiated price list.

Catalogs are how you give a wholesale customer their own range and pricing without running a second store. To manage them, open **Catalogs** under Products.

## The two ways a catalog is used

The single most useful thing to understand is that an **empty product list means something different from a full one**.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Pricing overlay">
    **No products added.** Nothing is hidden — the audience browses your normal range — but they pay this catalog's prices.

    This is what you want for a customer who buys anything you sell, at agreed rates.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Restricted range">
    **Products added.** The audience now sees *only* those products, at this catalog's prices.

    This is what you want for a buyer with a contracted range — the twelve SKUs in their agreement and nothing else.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

Adding the first product to an empty catalog therefore does not add one item to what a customer sees. It switches the catalog into restricting mode, and they now see only that item.

## Creating a catalog

**Add catalog** opens a short wizard: name it, choose who it is for, pick the products it covers, set what they pay, then review. Nothing is created until you finish.

You can also create a bare catalog and fill it in afterwards — the same cards are on the catalog page.

## Who sees it

A catalog reaches nobody until you assign an audience. Assign it to:

* a **company** — which covers that company and every division beneath it, or
* a **customer group**.

<Note>
  Company assignments win. A buyer whose company — or one above it — has any catalog gets those catalogs, and their customer group is not consulted. To give company buyers tier pricing, assign the catalog to their companies or divisions rather than to a group.
</Note>

## What they pay

A catalog prices through its own price list, set up on the catalog page. Each product row shows where its price comes from:

| From       | Meaning                                                     |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Entered    | An amount typed onto this catalog's price list              |
| Adjusted   | The shop price with this catalog's percentage applied       |
| Shop price | The normal price — this catalog does not price that product |

A percentage is the quickest way to express "this customer gets 15% off everything", with no rows to maintain as your prices change.

<Warning>
  Removing a catalog's pricing deletes the price list and the prices in it, and that audience goes back to paying normal prices. The dashboard warns you before saving such a change.
</Warning>

## Order terms

Catalogs can also carry the commercial terms of the agreement — how much a buyer must order:

* a **minimum order quantity** and **order multiple**, set for the whole catalog or per product
* an **order minimum**, the least a whole order must come to, set per currency

Leave them blank and buyers may order any quantity, any total.

## Going live

Catalogs are created switched off, so you can build one up without anyone seeing a half-finished agreement. **Activate** puts it into effect: its audience starts seeing its assortment and getting its prices.

**Deactivate** stops it applying. The audience goes back to shop prices and everything the catalog holds is kept, so you can switch it on again later.

<Note>
  A catalog with no audience cannot be activated — there would be nobody to apply it to. The exception is a catalog set as a sales channel's default, which reaches buyers through the channel rather than through an assignment.
</Note>

## Related

* [Selling to businesses](/docs/user/how-to/selling-to-businesses) — the whole B2B setup, end to end
* [Companies](/docs/user/customers/companies) and [Customer Groups](/docs/user/customers/customer-groups) — the two audiences a catalog is assigned to
* [Price Lists](/docs/user/pricing/price-lists) — pricing matched by market, volume or zone rules rather than owned by an agreement