Your job is to help your clients expand to new sales channels. But, their existing product data is too messy. Learn solutions to better manage their product data.

1. How to Solve Common Problems with
Your Clients’ Product Data

2. As an eCommerce solution provider (agency,
developer, etc), it’s your job to help your
clients expand to new sales channels.
A big part of that process is prepping and
managing their existing product data.

3. Your clients’ success depends on their ability to attract
new customers through rich, accurate product listings.

4. But, your clients usually turn over to you their messy
product data.
Maybe, you’ve even turned down a client because it’s too
complicated just to clean up it up.

5. What you need is a...
Product Information Management (PIM) application
A PIM application cleans up product data and
transforms it into market-ready product listings.

6. Here’s how a PIM application solves
common problems you have with clients’
product data!
Read the full blog post at www.nchannel.com/blog/product-information-management-clients-product-data/

7. Problem: Managing Multiple Excel Spreadsheets
Dealing with multiple spreadsheets with data in all different
formats is a huge hassle. It’s easy to make mistakes.

8. Solution: Centralize Your Data
A PIM application provides a centralized location where you:
• Only maintain one master catalog of your product data
• Import/export, clean, and edit all data in one place
• Publish subsets of your master catalog, tailored to each
sales channel
Make it easy for your clients to expand to new sales channels!

9. Having your senior developers write code to fix bad data from
your clients is a waste of time.
Problem: Using Custom Code or Scripting to Fix
Clients’ Product Data

10. Solution: Advanced Data Transformation
Capabilities
With a PIM solution, perform advanced data transformation
capabilities like:
• Concatenate multiple fields
• Build formulas
• Use expression language
Stop writing custom code for things you can do in just a few-
clicks.

11. Problem: Realizing Product Information is Wrong
After You Publish It
You know too well that terrible feeling when you see a product
listed wrong.

12. Solution: Use Data Validation Processes
Before Publishing
A PIM puts processes in place that validate your product
information before it ever gets published.
• Set error notifications
• Restricts listing products with incorrect or missing data
• Verify how products will be listed in-real time

13. Building collections is a hassle when you have to sift
through thousands of products.
Problem: Not Being Able to Easily Group Products
for Better Selling

14. A PIM allows you to create collections using specified criteria.
You can then manage groups of products cohesively.
For example, create a collection for items that include the
word accessory, female, and under $20. Whenever an new
item meets the criteria, it’s added to this group.
Solution: Automatically Build Collections by
Specified Criteria

15. Problem: Not Being Able to Efficiently Customize
Data by Sales Channel
It’s a real challenge to keep each sales channel’s
requirements for product listings straight.

16. A PIM application allows you to create CSV templates of the
required fields for a specific online platform. Map the fields
from your master catalog to the template’s field.
Save and reuse this template each time you create and
export product listings.
Solution: Create and Save Reusable
Templates for Each Channel

17. PIM helps you provide faster, high-quality services to your
clients by solving your common problems.
Learn more about nChannel’s Product Information Management
solution at www.nchannel.com/solutions/product-information-
management/