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This section covers the structure of how the catalog is setup within the PIM to centralize the product information and implement simpler flow across your organization.

├── Product Family
│   ├── Category 
│   │   ├── n level sub-categories
│   │   |   ├── Products
├── Brand
│   ├── Sub-brand / Range
│   ├── Products (eg. Shirt) 
│   │   ├── Variant Groups  (eg. Blue Color)
│   │   |   ├── Variants (eg. s/m/l)
│   │   ├── Serialization

Product Family

Product Family sits right at the top of the taxonomy tree, i.e. think of it as a big group of similar products. Imagine it like the top of the category tree, such as "Electronics". Now, within the family, you can setup a category tree which is specific to "Electronics" and assign to the specific team to manage the same without creating any noise. Each of these smaller groups has different laptop models that are alike in how they work and what they can do.

In BetterCommerce PIM, you can setup your own product families as per business suitability. Each family can have their independent category tree. When you're making a new product, you first pick which family it belongs to. Then, you can choose the right category from the list for that product. This helps keep product data well organized and structured and helps your internal teams to manage product data better.

Category

A category serves to group together similar products within a business. For instance, consider clothing: this can be a fundamental category encompassing various subcategories like tops, bottoms, and inner wear. Each subcategory, such as tops, can then be further divided into finer distinctions like t-shirts, shorts, and jackets. Advanced PIM systems offer the capability to establish multi-layered categories. Consequently, a product can be associated with any level of this hierarchical category structure.

In essence, the ability to create multi-layer categories within an advanced PIM system offers an intricate yet efficient framework for structuring and presenting products. This approach harmonizes product organization, searchability, navigation, and site design, culminating in an improved customer journey and richer user satisfaction.