The product catalog is a unified, vendor-synced search index of every SKU your connected vendors sell — millions of products, all searchable at the counter even if you've never stocked one. Find a catalog product and you can pull it into your own inventory with two clicks. Rundoo calls this family of integrations Vendor Catalogs.

In the POS mode, open Products in the left sidebar, then click the Catalog top tab.

What's a product catalog

A product catalog is the full list of everything a vendor sells — their entire SKU universe, not just what you currently stock. Rundoo's Vendor Catalogs pull these catalogs directly from vendors who publish a feed and keep them in sync, so when Benjamin Moore adds a new color or Orgill drops in a new fence gauge, it shows up in your catalog without you lifting a finger.

The distinction that matters: catalog products are searchable; your own products are stocked. A catalog product lives in the search index with its vendor-published UPC, name, and description — it won't ring up at POS, you can't count it, it has no price tier, no cost, no on-hand quantity. It's just findable. When a customer asks about a SKU you've never carried, you can search the catalog, find it, and know whether it exists before you promise anything.

To actually sell a catalog product, you have to bring it into your inventory — see Adding a catalog product to your inventory below. That's the move that turns a catalog entry into a first-class Product record with your cost, your price, and your stock levels.

Which vendors have catalogs

Not every vendor publishes a catalog — the vendor has to support a Rundoo-readable feed. Today's Vendor Catalogs include:

• Benjamin Moore — the full BM SKU list (tintable bases, specialty coatings, sundries). This is also what feeds the native Benjamin Moore order flow; see Catalog + Benjamin Moore ordering below.
• Orgill — the hardware distributor's full catalog, covering fence, plumbing, electrical, lawn & garden, and more.
• All Pro — paint-sundry and janitorial supply catalog used by independent paint retailers.
• Emery Jensen — Ace Hardware's wholesale distribution catalog, for stores affiliated with Ace.

Each catalog product carries the vendor's brand badge in the row, so at a glance you can tell which vendor a row came from without opening the detail panel. If your store works with a vendor that isn't in Vendor Catalogs yet, you can still bring their products in by Product imports from a spreadsheet — vendor catalog sync is about continuous sync, not one-time loads.

Finding a catalog product

Open the Catalog top tab to land on the full, unified catalog — rows from every connected vendor, interleaved. Columns are UPC, Name, vendor badge, MSRP, Description, and Details. It's a large index (tens of thousands of rows), so you'll almost always narrow it with the search before scrolling.

Type into the Search input at the top. Matches run against UPC and product name simultaneously — so 052807011246 and regal select both work. Results refresh live as you type. The vendor badge on each row tells you which catalog the row came from; a Benjamin Moore badge next to a row means that SKU ships from BM, not from whatever vendor happens to be selected elsewhere.

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Catalog search is vendor-agnostic on purpose. There's no "pick a vendor first" step — if you type "regal select", you'll see Benjamin Moore's Regal Select lines alongside any catalog-matching SKUs from other vendors. The vendor badge is how you disambiguate. This matters when two vendors carry similar commodity items (fence staples, paint trays) — search shows them side by side so you can compare.

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