Retail POS maintains vendor catalogs from many industries. We save you the time and expense of manually entering and updating product data by making it easy to import item details directly into your inventory. To have access to the vendors and vendor catalogs, you must select the vendor's industry in the Account settings wizard.

You can add item information from a Retail POS catalog when you create an item or when create a new item from a purchase order.

After you create an item in Retail POS, you can update the item information by searching for the item in the Retail POS catalogs in Inventory > Item Search, and reimporting the item. This is useful when you use one of our integrated vendors and an updated version of a vendor catalog is added to Retail POS. For an existing item's cost, price, and description to be updated along with the other data, you must select Update From Catalog in the vendor's settings.

Catalog results are kept separate from your business' inventory items. In Inventory > Item Search, select the Catalog Results checkbox, search for the item, and click Catalog Matches to display the catalog items.

Available Retail POS vendor catalogs

Retail POS offers various pre-built vendor catalogs and integrated vendors catalogs for automatic catalog syncing.

Adding a vendor catalog to our system

To learn how to get catalogs from your vendor to send to Retail POS, go to Submitting catalogs. We prefer comma separated (.csv) or tab delimited formats but can accept Excel format. Catalogs must contain item descriptions and vendor numbers. Any additional information vendors provide such as MSRP, Cost, and UPC add benefit and time savings for you.