About catalogs for different markets

• Your app can make authenticated requests to the GraphQL Admin API.
• Your app has the write_products access scope. Learn how to configure your access scopes using Shopify CLI.
• You've created products and product variants in your store.

A catalog represents a list of products to be published in a specified context, such as for international customers, certain business-to-business (B2B) customers, or customers on certain sales channels.

A Catalog has a Publication field that determines which products are visible to the customer when they visit the online store and checkout.

Each Catalog object also has a PriceList field that determines any price adjustments for its eligible contexts, such as a Market for international customers, a CompanyLocation for business-to-business (B2B) customers, or an App for customers on certain sales channels.

For each PriceList, a PriceListParent can be used to control prices using percentage adjustments. You can use the PriceListPrice object to represent a final, fixed price for a single product variant.

If you use the PriceListPrice field to configure a fixed price for a product variant, then the fixed price takes precedence over any other adjustments that are defined at the price list level. For more information about how prices are determined, refer to Pricing prioritization.

Before you start implementing catalogs, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following API objects and their relationships:

Price lists are displayed to customers through the online store and checkout based on their eligible catalogs. A catalog represents certain criteria about the customer that must be true for a price list to apply.

If a customer is logged into a B2B customer account, then any catalogs that are associated with their selected company location are prioritized over catalogs that are associated with their eligible markets or other contexts.

After the price list is applied, pricing is determined by priority as described in the following diagram:

In the example scenario depicted in the diagram, a US-based merchant configures a price list for a Canadian market with currency CAD that applies different pricing for Canadian customers:

• If the customer doesn't match a catalog's context, then the given price is the initial price (the product variant price) in the original currency.
• If a price list isn't associated with the catalog, then the initial price is applied using the selected currency rules. The example uses a foreign exchange rate of 1.3.
• If a PriceListPrice isn't defined, then an adjusted relative price is calculated using the PriceListParent object. Adjusted prices work in conjunction with exchange rules and rounding. In the example, the merchant sets a rounding rule to 0.99 for all currencies. A price adjustment of 20% applies in addition to the foreign exchange rate of 1.3. The price is calculated as $20 * 1.3 * 1.2 = $31.99.
• If a PriceListPrice is defined, then a specific fixed price is applied for the product. This price applies irrespective of foreign exchange rules or rounding.

If the customer's market doesn't match the store currency and a price list isn't associated with their catalog, then foreign exchange and rounding are applied to the initial price using either automatic or manual multi-currency rules.

However, if the customer's market doesn't match the store currency, and an adjusted relative price has been applied through the price list parent, then foreign exchange and rounding are applied along with the adjustment. If a fixed price list price is applicable, then foreign exchange and rounding aren't applied because the prices are already in the desired currency.

Selling plan pricing policies work in conjunction with price lists:

• If a selling plan has a SellingPlanPricingPolicyAdjustmentType with a value of either FIXED_AMOUNT or PERCENTAGE, then the selling plan adjustment applies to the price list, both for fixed prices and relative adjustments.
• If the value is PRICE, then the selling plan value overrides the price list settings.

In the following diagram, the pricing request includes a selling plan that reduces the price. A 15% PERCENTAGE adjustment type is applied to the PriceListPrice of $35.00. The final price is $29.40.

• Each market can be assigned only one catalog.
• Multiple catalogs can be assigned to the same B2B company location. If a customer is logged into a B2B customer account that's eligible for multiple catalogs that contain the same product, then they receive the lowest listed price within those catalogs.
• The market currency and price list currency must match. For example, you can't create a price list that's mapped to a Canadian market catalog with currency CAD and set the price list currency to USD.
• There are no webhooks that are associated with changes to catalogs or price lists.

Explore the following developer tools and resources to learn more about building with catalogs:

Catalog object

Consult the GraphQL Admin API reference to learn more about the Catalog object.

PriceList object

Consult the GraphQL Admin API reference to learn more about the PriceList object.

• Learn how to sell different products for different prices around the world by configuring the price list and publication of a market’s catalog.
• Learn how to create a B2B catalog to determine the published products and prices for customers ordering for a specific B2B company location.