Catalog
A catalog is a structured list of a business's products, with names, prices, images, and descriptions, that a messaging platform can show inside a chat.
On WhatsApp a catalog linked through Meta's Commerce Manager allows single product and multi-product messages in the conversation. The recurring problem is staleness: a catalog that no longer matches the store produces confident wrong answers about price and availability. Whoever owns the store should own the catalog.
Worth knowing alongside it.
- Conversational commerce
- Conversational commerce is selling and supporting customers inside a messaging conversation, from the first product question through to the order and afterwards.
- Grounding
- Grounding is the practice of making an AI answer from specific source material you supplied, rather than from whatever it absorbed during training.