Edge Catalog

An edge catalog is a catalog designed to be directly accessible by a storefront for retrieving and displaying catalogs, categories and products.

An edge catalog is used to store and retrieve products, as well as feed indexes. The Sitecore Commerce Server 8.0 catalog subsystem is used as an edge catalog to take advantage of existing and future investments integration investments between Sitecore Commerce Server and Sitecore.

Note: An edge catalog is read-only. All catalog, category, and product data is managed in Dynamics AX ®. The data from Dynamics AX ® is used as the conclusive source for all catalog data.