A catalog organization defines subcatalog organizations
by performing various tasks.
- Defining
enterprises as subcatalog organizations of the catalog organization.
To specify an organization as a subcatalog organization, the organization
must be configured as an enterprise, and the catalog organization
must be specified as its catalog organization.
- Authorizing subcatalog organizations to manage
categories in the master catalog. Subcatalog organizations are responsible
for maintaining the assigned categories.
- Defining seller entitlements for subcatalog organizations.
Seller entitlements determine the categories in the master catalog
to which subcatalog organizations have access. If you are extending
the catalog to a subcatalog organization and want other subcatalog
organizations to be entitled to access its categories, you must also
configure seller entitlements for the other subcatalog organizations.
Catalog organizations are entitled to access all master catalog categories.
In addition to seller entitlements configured by the catalog organization,
a subcatalog organization can set up customer entitlements that determine
the items the subcatalog organization’s customers can buy.
Seller entitlements determine what a subcatalog organization can sell
and customer entitlements determine what customers can buy. The catalog
organization assigns seller entitlements to subcatalog organizations;
the catalog organization and subcatalog organizations assign customer
entitlements to their customers.