Add your catalog
Photos, a spreadsheet or your website. What the AI structures, what you check, and how the sample catalog works if you have nothing handy.

What you are building
Your catalog is what your AI answers from. Every product carries its options, attributes, images and prices, so a buyer’s “can I get it in walnut, 84 inches?” has one true place to land. Fabricut Contract’s 16,307 fabrics went live this way in a day; a workshop with forty products is done in an afternoon.
Three ways in. Pick the one that matches what you have on your desk right now.
Way one: photos of samples
- Open Catalog and choose Add products, then From photos.
- Drop the photos. One product per photo works best; a photo with the label or a ruler in frame helps.
- Your AI writes the product name, the description, the specs it can read, and a clean packshot. Add the Studio pack if you want a close-up and a lifestyle shot too.
- Check each card. Fix a name, add a size range, delete a spec you do not stand behind. Nothing is live until you say so.
Cost: one credit per product, two more for the Studio pack. Twelve photos are twelve credits.
Way two: a spreadsheet
- Choose Add products, then From a spreadsheet, and upload the file you already send buyers.
- Map your columns to Poly9 AI fields once: name, SKU, category, options, price, image URL. The mapping is saved, so next season is one click.
- Review the preview. Rows with a problem are flagged with the reason; fix them in the sheet or in the preview.
- Import. Options and attributes become the record your AI reads.
Cost: nothing. Imports and edits are never metered.
Way three: hand us the files
If your line runs to thousands of SKUs, or your prices live on a website and in three PDFs, send them to us. We load the catalog, connect the images and check the result with you. Kravet’s 37,400 SKUs took one day once the files were in hand. Start free, then write to sales with the files and we take it from there.
Nothing handy? Start with the sample catalog
Pick your industry at signup and your account opens with a sample catalog: priced products with options, materials, a few pricing rules, three buyers and a shared collection. Ask your AI to quote something in the first five minutes. When your own products are in, delete the sample in one click.
What to check before you move on
- Every product has at least one image and a category.
- Options are options, not adjectives. “Walnut” should be a finish the buyer can pick, not a word in the description.
- The five products you sell most have their sizes and materials filled in. Your AI answers best where the record is complete.
Next: write your first pricing rule, so the products you just added can be priced.
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