Product Catalog

Learn how Apiboost keeps your API products organized.

About the Product Catalog

There’s no limit to how many APIs an organization may feature in their catalog. With Apiboost, you have both the ability to scale or give prominence to a select few products critical to your business. There is no standard amount, but there is a catalog that will work for you.

If you have many API products and want to avoid the clutter, it’s recommended using the large catalog. However if that’s not the case, use the small catalog to show off the select few that matter most.

Choosing a Catalog Size

Control the appearance and presentation of your products by selecting the catalog size that’s right for you. Not many products? Smaller catalog option may be for you. Need a scalable solution? Try the larger catalog.

Organizing Products

Sort and distribute your products in a way that they can be easily found. Apiboost offers a number of search vocabularies configurable to ensure the click paths to APIs are always the shortest and require the least effort from prospective users.

Best Practices for Product Organization

While there’s no standard amount of API products, there’s a need to keep the product catalog as accessible and user-friendly as possible. Product organization should always be taken into consideration regardless of how many products are offered.

As volume increases, so does the need to organize. Organization can simply be using categories and filters in ways that they’re most effective.

Sometimes it helps to visualize categories and filters as a matrix. For example:

Categories are best left to independent variables, a primary way of making a distinction between groups of products that may have nothing to do with one another. They could be entirely separate products used in conjunction with one another with no other connection besides that.

Filters are excellent macro-level search criteria for connecting otherwise independent categories. In the example above, Inventory and Shipping Services may have nothing to do with one another, but they may both be region-based. Having that in common makes region and language excellent candidates for filters.

Continue following this guide to learn more about the Apiboost product catalog