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Product Cards (V2)

How to create and use product cards for your catalogs and Showroom

Updated over a week ago

Note: This article covers the latest Catalog Machine version 2. For help with the previous version, see this article.

Product Cards are a powerful feature in Catalog Machine V2 that allows you to create beautiful, consistent product presentations across your catalogs and Showroom. Each card displays information about one product - including prices, images, descriptions, specs, and more - in a customizable design format.

Benefits of Product Cards:

  1. Consistency: Maintain a uniform look across all your catalogs and Showroom. Changes to a product card design update immediately everywhere it's used.

  2. Efficiency: Create multi-product pages quickly manually or with AutoGrids.

  3. Flexibility: Customize designs to match your brand and presentation needs, from minimal (image + name) to detailed spec cards.

  4. Automatic Updates: Changes to linked product information reflect immediately across all uses of the card.

How to Create a Product Card:

1. Go to https://app.catalogmachine.com/design/cards or you can design in-place from the Catalog Designer, AutoGrid, etc..

2. Choose to modify or copy a pre-designed card or create a new one from scratch.

3. Add elements to your card:

  • Text: Add content with product field placeholders (e.g., {{Name}}, {{Price}}, {{Description}}). Product fields are defined in the product category.

  • Images: Add product image placeholders or static images

  • Backgrounds: Use Rectangle element.

4. Customize your design:

  • Move, re-size, adjust layers and elements.

  • Format text with different fonts, colors, and styles

  • Adjust image sizes and positions

  • Set background colors or images

5. Save your Product Card with a descriptive name.

6. Preview your card with different products to ensure it looks good with various settings, content and different categories.

Settings:

  • Cards can have different grid sizes (up to 1/12 x 1/12 of the page) and can be used in different places with different sizes.

  • Cards inherit catalog theme settings (fonts, colors). You can test with different schemas.

  • Cards can have a default size.

  • Cards can be assigned as default for Catalog Product Grid, Showroom Product Details or Showroom Product List.

Using Product Cards in Catalogs:

Go to Catalog Designer

For a single product:

  1. Click a product in the sidebar to open its elements

  2. Drag your Product Card onto the page in your catalog

For multiple products:

  • Use AutoGrids to apply your Product Card to entire sections or the whole catalog.

  • Select your desired Product Card in the AutoGrid design

Once done, preview your catalog to ensure everything looks perfect. Share your catalog as an interactive online site or download as a high-quality PDF.

By mastering Product Cards, you'll be able to create professional, cohesive catalogs in no time.

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