For retailers
Dashboard
A guided workspace for operating and governing the catalog without writing any code.
- Create templates
- Import suppliers
- Approve products
- Manage governance
Platform
Set the product standards your retail team needs, bring supplier ranges into line and approve important changes before products reach your website, stores or marketplaces.
Retail teams work from one approved catalog standard.
Workspace
/Core catalog
Workspace
Governance workflow
One controlled path from model to delivery
Governed catalog core
3 verticals · retailer owned
Templates
18 approved
90% field coverage
Imports
184 staged
Validation
3 awaiting review
96%
rules passed
Products
3,248 governed
API
Contract healthy
Implementation paths
Work visually in the dashboard or connect your existing tools. Both paths use the same approved catalog, so your business can start small and expand at its own pace.
For retailers
A guided workspace for operating and governing the catalog without writing any code.
For developers
A typed interface for building custom retail experiences on the same governed core.
Retail categories
From trainers and vitamins to power tools and pet care, organise each range around the details customers and teams actually use.
Brand sizing, fit and colour conventions rarely agree across apparel, footwear and accessories.
Context-led templates keep sizing, fabric, fit and season relevant to each category.
Phones, televisions and audio products share very few useful technical attributes.
Domain-specific specs keep storage, panel type and audio features clean and filterable.
OTC, prescription and supplement ranges carry different controls, batches and expiry rules.
Governed health templates enforce the certification and traceability fields each range needs.
Fresh, packaged and deli products need weight, allergen, storage and shelf-life data.
Food templates keep variable weights, allergens and batch details in one dependable model.
Fasteners, power tools and furniture cannot share one useful product template.
Separate contexts preserve diameter, voltage, room fit and assembly detail without clutter.
Shade and finish matter for makeup; SPF and concern matter for skincare.
Each beauty category receives only the attributes shoppers use to compare it.
Customers need parts matched to year, make and model rather than generic product pages.
Fitment-aware schemas keep components precise while universal accessories remain simple.
Food, care and accessories vary by species, breed size, age and dietary need.
Pet templates make life stage, compatibility and diet reliable discovery controls.
Plants and outdoor products depend on season, hardiness, size and growing conditions.
Garden and outdoor schemas preserve care and compatibility data without forcing it onto other ranges.
Product standards
Keep the right product details and approved choices together for each range, without carrying unrelated information into another part of the business.
Approved template
v2.4For comfort, fit and finish
Approved template
v3.1For precise technical comparison
Approved template
v1.8For skin, formula and finish
Catalog structure
Start with the way your business organises a range, then add the product details teams and shoppers need. Each layer has a clear job, so categories stay useful and products stay complete.
Retail standards flow into product groups. Product details stay with the range, while simple categories organise how shoppers browse.
Inheritance result
Change an approved standard and every team can see which part of the catalog is affected.
Retail category
Fashion & apparel
Shared policy and vocabulary
Product standard
Shirts
Approved product details and choices
Category
Shirts
A stable browse destination
Product
Oxford shirt
A complete product group ready to sell
Simple browsing
Use categories as stable places to shop, then let product details handle colour, fit and size. New choices do not need another branch in the navigation.
Browse destination
Shirts
Product detail stays with the product, where it can be checked and reused across search, filters and comparison.
Shirts
Oxford Shirt
Regular · Cotton · Sky
£54
Work Shirt
Relaxed · Linen · Navy
£58
Oxford Shirt
Regular · Cotton · Sky
£54
Linen Shirt
Slim · Linen · Sage
£62
Poplin Shirt
Slim · Cotton · White
£48
Work Shirt
Regular · Linen · Navy
£58
Ready-to-sell products
Each product keeps its category, required details and approved choices together, so teams can manage it confidently across search, merchandising and sales channels.
product / JNS-1042-NVY-32
The product is clear to a merchandiser and complete enough for every team and sales channel.
Each product group shows the information it needs before it is ready to sell.
Approved choices keep filters, comparison and merchandising language aligned.
Anything new or unfamiliar becomes a review decision instead of silently changing the catalog.
Supplier checks
Your team sets the standard first. Each range is checked against it, so missing details, unfamiliar choices and errors become visible decisions before products enter the catalog.
Supplier checks turn your product standards into a practical checkpoint. Suppliers can suggest changes; your retail team decides. Approved changes stay visible in the activity history.
Supplier source
Map to the retailer model
Supplier language → retailer standard
184
rows
3
passed
1
review
Supplier value
colour: Dark BlueApproved value
colour: NavyTemplate match
Denim apparel
Required attributes
14 of 14 supplied
Unknown value
Dark Blue → map to Navy or propose value
Unknown attribute
wash_finish → propose, reject or ignore
Category assignment
Fashion / Jeans
Retailer approval gate
Nothing publishes silently
Catalog overview
Track whether ranges are complete, supplier information is arriving cleanly and where your team needs to make a decision before launch.
Catalog overview
Executive summary · Northstar Retail
Active templates
18
Retailer-approved structures
Thin categories
42
Stable browse destinations
Governed products
3,248
Validated product records
Committed imports
96
Approved supplier runs
Approved product records
Recent ranges checked successfully
Product placement health
84%
assigned
Every channel, one standard
Your website, stores and internal tools can use the same approved categories and product details without creating separate versions of the range.
Governed catalog core
One approved product model
Shared product standard
Approved details · consistent product IDs
Request contract
/v1/products/prod_9912categorystring
attributes.storage_gbnumber
approvedboolean
Response JSON
{
"product_id": "prod_9912",
"template": "denim_apparel",
"attributes": { "colour": "navy" },
"validation": "approved"
}Browse and filters
Product lookup and sales
Shared product information
Build from one clear standard
Set the structure once, review supplier changes as they arrive and give every sales channel dependable product information.