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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.

Also calledproduct catalogproduct set

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.

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