Catalogs for fasteners – and similar building and automotive products – are well suited to automation given the large number of products comprising a typical range.
Key features
- Structured layout aids easy product reference
- Product attributes may be shown to enhance user experience
- Multiple product prices may be shown and updated automatically
- Category summary images are shown instead of individual product images
Design challenges
- Product ranges are often very large
- Numerous products share many similar (or identical) attributes
- Products are often not visually attractive
Product management for fastener catalogs
Fastener catalogs typically comprise hundreds (if not thousands) of products, with up to 10 product attributes associated with each product.
Managing this product information can be challenging, especially if you’re using a spreadsheet or ERP software.
Catalog Automation has developed its own purpose-built product information management platform – known as Producty™.
Producty™ allows you to manage your products using a drag-and-drop tree, and to easily add formatted text and product attributes.
Benefits of automating your fastener catalog
Layout Templates
The sample page shown below includes elements typically found in a fastener catalog. Your catalog can be tailored to your specific design & product requirements based on this design, or you may choose to use one of the other templates in our library as a starting point.
Template library
Catalog templates include single column (full page), two column and three column layouts. Designs may be fixed to a particular size (i.e. a grid-based layout) or be sized according to the content (i.e. a flow-based layout).
Enhance your fastener catalogs with these features
How it works
Catalog Automation follows a structured 5 steps to catalogue success™ process to automate the creation of catalogs, price lists, brochures and directories.
We improve your data structures and product management processes and work with you to create great looking templates. We then merge the data and templates to create catalog pages automatically – and in a fraction of the time taken for a manual layout. We also add features to ensure your catalog is a high performer – including indexes, new product guides and cross references.
View our other catalog layouts
Would you like some help automating your fastener catalog?
Catalog Automation has produced thousands of automated catalog pages for customers in a wide range of industries.
We’d love to learn more about your requirements and to help you overcome the challenges you face in creating your catalog on-time and on-budget.
Please send us a message and we’ll be in touch!