The Catalog Settings refer to your category pages and product display on the frontend.

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The Catalog Settings are complementary global settings to the available design settings in Web Settings > Product Settings > Catalog.

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List Mode

Products per Page on Grid Allowed Values

By default it is set to display 12,16,24, or 36 products per page. You can however change it to any other amount, such as 15, 20, 30, etc.
In Edit My Design you can select in how many columns you want to display the product grid.

Products per Page on Grid Default Value

This is the amount of products displayed by default in the product grid. If set to 12 your customer will see by default 12 products per page unless they change it to another number.
Note: The default value needs to be an allowed value!

Ajax Product Scroll: Number Of Rows To Load

This setting determines, when Ajax Scroll is enabled on the Category Product List Block, how many rows of products will load initially, and how many rows will load each time the Ajax Scroll is initiated. Leave blank to default to 4 rows.

Display Out of Stock Products

Yes/No

This setting only applies to displaying products in Category lists. To remove Out of Stock Products from being accessed by their URL directly you will need to change the Visibility of the Product. Also see Inventory Management.

Placeholder Image

Upload a placeholder image that will display on category and product pages whenever a product doesn't have a Main Image assigned.

Maximum Number Of Subcategories In Header Navigation

By default this is set to 3. While you can increase the number please note this can affect the speed of your store.

Disable URL Support for Full UTF-8 Character Set

When set to 'Yes' the allowed subset of characters within a URL Key will be: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, dashes, and underscores. When set to 'No' the allowed character set for a URL Key will be expanded to the entire UTF-8 character set which will, among other things, extend support for character symbols used in many languages around the world.

Product List Sorting

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You can add other attributes to this list by going to your Products > Attributes and set the attribute you want to Allow Customers to Sort Products by this Attribute.

There are settings to control how your catalog is sorted in Web Settings > Product Settings > Catalog > Sorting.

• Sort Out of Stock Products To The Bottom
• Enable Sort Products by Inventory
  Enable "Inventory Low to High" and "Inventory High to Low" category sorting options on the store front. These options will only sort simple products.
• Product Listing Sort By
• Product Listing Sort Direction
• Sort SKU as Numeric
• Sort By Products On Sale On Top
  When set to 'Products With Sale Price First', products which have a Sale Price listed will be sorted above products which would be discounted by Promotions > Sales Rules.

Product Listing Sort Direction

You can set it to Ascending or Descending. If you have the Sort Order By set to "Name" and "Ascending" it will sort from A to Z, whereas "Descending" will sort from Z to A.

Inventory Report

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Enable your customers to download the Inventory Report by going to Web Settings > Product Settings > Catalog > Inventory Report.

Designed as a front end feature to enable your customers to download a list of products within a category, the Inventory Report may be added to your store and downloaded to a CSV from any category page.

To enable the Inventory Report on your store, navigate to Web Settings > Products Settings > Catalog and scroll down to Inventory Report

Set enable Inventory report Download to Yes. You may set this per Customer Group if you don't want it to be available to all groups.

You may add more Attributes to the report. And Save.

Filters

Enable Price Filters on Category Pages

If set to Yes it will show the Price as a filter option with the price ranges.

Enable Sub-Category Filters on Category Pages

When set to yes, Sub-categories will appear as filters on the main Category page.

Enable SEO Friendly Filters

When set to 'Yes', attribute filters for category URLs will use format ?[attribute]=[label] instead of [attribute]=[option_id]. For example, color=50 would be become color=Red. Please note that for this functionality to work properly, there should not be any duplicate option values for a single attribute.

Pricing

Calculate Price to 4th Place After Decimal

When set to No, prices will be calculated to the 2nd place after the decimal. When set to yes, prices will be calculated to the thousandth.

Only Show Final Price of Product

If set to Yes, only the final price will be shown. If set to no, price will be shown struck out with the final price next to it.

Override Customer Group Pricing with Base Sale Price

When set to No, Customer Group Pricing will be used. When set to Yes, the Base Sale Price will be used instead of the Customer Group price.

Reviews

Allow Guests to Write Reviews

Yes/No This setting is only relevant for customers who do not have an Account. Even when set to No, logged in Customers can still write reviews unless unchecked and removed in the Theme > Product template >Product Essentials > Reviews.

Hide Product Page Review Schema

Yes/No This setting is in reference to hidden code that only search engines see which allows for the website reviews to show up in Google search results. It doesn't affect review visibility on your website. You can control reviews to be allowed or removed in Theme > Product template > Edit Product Essentials > Reviews.

Hide Product List Review Schema

Yes/No This setting controls if website reviews can show up in search engine results. It doesn't affect if reviews are displayed on your website. Review visibility on the Category page is controlled in your Theme > Category template > Edit Category Product List > Show Product Reviews.

Only X Left

This setting determines when the low stock notice will appear on the product page. For example, if set to "25", the Only X Left will only show when the qty on the product is 25 or fewer.

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Learn More about Low Stock Notice

Configurable Products & Variations

Enable Table View on Category Page When enabled, products will be listed in a vertical table. This is useful for adding multiple items to cart at once.

Show "Starting From" Price For Configurable Products When enabled, the lowest variation price will be shown as starting from.

Display Base Price of Configurable Product Price Type Custom When enabled the base price of a configurable product will appear when no variation is selected, otherwise text to select a variation will appear.

Allow Out of Stock Variations to be Selected When set to No, only instock variations will be available for selection.

Use Table View on Product Page When enabled, configurable skus will have the variation options displayed in a table, in place of drop-down menu options.

Default Columns To Show In Table To show additional columns, set "Pull Through Simple Product Custom Attributes Data" to Yes. This will automatically populate the table with Custom Attributes specified in the Variation Simple Product.

Show Columns Headers in Product Page Table View When set to No, column headers on the product table will be hidden.

Show Images in Product Page Table View When enabled, variation image thumbnails will be displayed on the table.

Show Status Flags in Product Page Table View When enabled, New and Sale flags will be displayed.

Product Page Variation Table Sort By Allows you to select an attribute by which to sort variation items in the table.

Product Page Variation Table Sort Direction This will change the direction of the sort if using an attribute for "Product Page Variation Table Sort By" instead of the "Default" value.

Show Inventory in Product Page Table View When enabled, will display the available Inventory as a column in the product table. You may choose to set this by Customer Group.

Swap Simple Product Custom Attribute Data When Selected When set to Yes, if a Simple Product has a Custom Attribute that is configured to show data (such as on cart, checkout, emails, etc..) it will be shown even though the purchase was done at the Configurable, Group or Bundle Product level.