i2o Product Center
The i2o Product Center is the central database that hosts and maps the inputs that produce your sales & digital shelf reporting. For each product, you can view or edit details, activate or deactivate monitoring flags, and make bulk changes to your assortment.
How to View
Product Center
1. Log in and navigate to Product Center.
2. Use the tab bar to switch between Products, Brands, Categories, and Authorized Resellers.
3. The
Quick Filter bar has 4 default pinned filters (Short Name, Brand, Category, MAP
Type), click any to apply.
4. Click
Clear All to reset.
Data
Health
5. Eight
KPI cards appear below the filter bar: Duplicate UPCs, Missing UPC, Missing
Short Name, Unknown Brand, Unknown Category, MAP Not Set, Missing Model Number,
Total Platforms.
KPI
definitions:
• Duplicate UPCs: UPCs appearing more than once on the same platform mapped to multiple distinct products.
• Missing UPC: Records where UPC is null, blank, or UNKNOWN.
• Missing Short Name: Records where Short Name is null or blank.
• Unknown Brand: Records where Brand = "UNKNOWN".
• Unknown Category: Records where Category = "Other".
• MAP Not Set: Records where MAP is NULL.
• Missing Model Number: Records where Model Number is null, blank, or UNKNOWN.
• Total
Platforms: Count of platforms where matching products have been found.
View
Details Table
6. Each row represents one unique UPC across all platforms.
7. Short Name uses a priority order: Amazon > Walmart > Target > eBay > Best Buy > any available platform.
8. The
MAP column shows the current effective price. When a Promo MAP is active, the
price is shown in orange with a P indicator within the same MAP column, hover
over it to see the promo end date.
MAP Update
9. Click
the edit icon next to MAP value to open the MAP update popup.
10. The popup shows the product name, current MAP, and last 3 months of MAP history (Type, Effective Start, Effective End, MAP, Loaded On, Updated By).
11. Click
+ Add MAP Entry to expand the inline form.
12. Select MAP Type: Default or Promo.
13. For
Default MAP: enter the price. Effective Start Date defaults to today if left
blank. No end date required.
14. For Promo MAP: enter the price, Effective Start Date, and Effective End Date. Both dates are required.
15. Click Save.
MAP Upload
Template
16. Click the Template button and select MAP Update Template to download the Excel file (3 sheets: Definitions, Sample Data, MAP Template).
17. Fill in the MAP Template sheet. Required: UPC, MAP Type, MAP/Compliant Price, Region. Optional: Policy Type, Effective Start Date, Effective End Date.
18. For
Promo MAP, Effective End Date is mandatory. Default MAP Effective Start Date
defaults to today if blank.
19. Upload via the Upload button. The system resolves UPC across all matched platforms and updates MAP.
20. A success/failure report is returned. Rows with errors are rejected and listed with reasons.
Export
21. Click Export Data (top right of the products table) to download an Excel file.
22. Active
filters are reflected in the export.
23. Columns: Short Name, Brand, Category, UPC, Model Number, MAP, MAP Type, Effective Start Date, MAP End Date, Promo Active, Platforms.
Brands Tab
24. The Brands Tab shows all brands in a consolidated All-platform view with a KPI dashboard and sortable table.
25. KPI cards are Total Brands, Active Brands, Unknown/Unassigned (Brand Name = "UNKNOWN"). Click any card to filter; click again to deselect.
26. Table
columns are Brand Name, Categories (auto-computed), Total Products
(auto-computed), Platforms, Status. All sortable.
27. Click + Add Brand. Brand Name is required. Display Name defaults to Brand Name if blank. Select platforms or All Platforms (assigns to all current and future platforms).
28. Click any brand row to edit. Active toggle (subtitle: "Active brands appear in filters and product assignment") activates or deactivates the brand.
29. Change
the status of the brand using the Status toggle in the table row.
Categories
Tab
30. Click on the categories tab. KPI cards here are Total Categories, Active Categories, Other/Unassigned.
31. Table columns are Category Name, Brands (auto-computed), Total Products (auto-computed), Platforms, Status.
32. Click
+ Add Category to add a new category.
33. Click any row to edit.
34. Change the status of the category using the Status toggle in the table row.
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