Upload & Manage Your Product Catalog

Upload your product catalog to enable product-level AI Shopping tracking. Once your catalog is connected, Cite AI monitors how individual products appear across AI-generated shopping recommendations, identifies competing products, and tracks visibility trends over time.

Your uploaded catalog powers detailed product analytics, making it possible to measure AI recommendation performance for every product, not just your brand as a whole.

Uploading Your Catalog

Before product tracking can begin, Cite AI needs information about the products you want to monitor, including their names, brand, and categories.

You can import your catalog using any of the following methods:

Shopify Store

Connect your Shopify storefront by entering your store URL. Cite AI automatically imports your published products without requiring a file upload.

CSV Upload

Upload a CSV file containing your product catalog. This option works for any ecommerce platform and is recommended for custom catalogs.

Google Merchant Center Feed

Import an existing Google Merchant Center feed to quickly sync your product information.

Regardless of the import method, all products are added to your catalog and become available throughout AI Shopping.

CSV Requirements

Your CSV should contain one product per row.

Required Fields

Field	Description
Product Name	Name of the product.
Brand	Brand or manufacturer name.

Recommended Fields

• Description
• Price
• Currency
• Product URL
• Product Image URL
• Category

Providing complete product information improves product matching and reporting accuracy.

Categories are particularly important, as they power product organization, filtering, and category-level insights throughout AI Shopping.

Catalog Processing

After your catalog is uploaded, Cite AI processes your products in the background.

As product matching completes, you’ll begin seeing:

• Product visibility
• AI recommendation rankings
• Competitor products
• Shopping query insights
• Product performance trends

Historical AI conversations are also analyzed, allowing insights to populate without waiting for entirely new tracking runs.

Managing Your Catalog

Your product catalog can be updated at any time.

You can:

• Add new products.
• Update existing products.
• Remove products you no longer wish to track.
• Upload additional products without replacing your existing catalog.

Multiple uploads are merged into a single catalog, making it easy to expand product tracking over time.

My Catalog vs All Products

AI Shopping offers two ways to explore product data.

My Catalog

Displays only the products you’ve uploaded.

Use this view to monitor the performance of your own catalog and measure AI visibility for products you actively sell.

All Products

Displays every product Cite AI identifies across tracked AI shopping conversations, including competitor products.

This view helps you:

• Discover competing products.
• Analyze the competitive landscape.
• Compare your products against market leaders.
• Identify new optimization opportunities.

Even without uploading a catalog, All Products provides valuable insights into the products AI models recommend most frequently.

Product Categories

During import, Cite AI automatically builds a category structure from your product data.

Review and adjust categories before completing the upload to ensure products are organized correctly.

Categories are used throughout AI Shopping for:

• Product filtering
• Category analysis
• Performance comparisons
• Competitive reporting

A well-organized category structure makes it easier to analyze product performance across different product lines.

Removing Products

Products can be removed from your catalog at any time.

Removing a product only affects My Catalog. Products that continue appearing in tracked AI conversations remain visible under All Products, allowing you to continue monitoring competitor activity and overall market trends.

Your AI Shopping insights continuously update as new AI conversations are tracked, helping you measure how product visibility changes over time.