HyperCatalog Retail

Catalog and graphics automation that makes the most time-consuming parts of retail catalog production virtually disappear.

Building on years of catalog-publishing automation, HyperCatalog Retail (HcR) is a collection of tools, database components, a web administration interface and an automation back end that produces retail catalog layouts in minutes rather than days. Catalog automation clients have included J.Jill and the US Navy Exchange, and CFS has consulted on catalog automation for Macy’s.

Your place or ours?

We can install the software on your computers at your location, or host and manage your automation system on our own servers. Either way it is used by your company only, and with hosting you don’t need to train IT staff or run dedicated workstations. We take care of everything.

Features

• Complete, error-free InDesign retail catalogs in minutes
• Works with your existing templates and workflow
• Fully editable InDesign and Illustrator mechanicals
• Full copy-management integration
• Layouts, tables, charts, images and copy in one automated workflow
• Any data source: Excel, SQL, FileMaker, XML or HTML

Benefits

• Higher productivity, with fewer errors and faster production
• Production bottlenecks found and removed
• Shorter catalog lead times
• Copy assets managed in a database
• Artists freed from repetitive work
• Full control through the admin interface and easy-to-read status logs

Next steps

Our consulting team works with you to identify the right components of HyperCatalog, then our development team implements them to match your workflow. Contact us to start.