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Catalogue Overview

Last Updated: 15/09/2026

Catalogues in ARShades Studio are the central containers where all 3D eyewear assets are organised, customised, and published. They act as the bridge between your organisation’s 3D asset library and the experiences delivered to your customers through Virtual Try-On (VTO), 3D viewers, and gateways.

What a Catalogue Is​

A catalogue is a structured collection of products and their variants, enriched with 3D models, VTO links, and custom branding settings. It defines how assets are grouped, displayed, and shared across different platforms.

Each catalogue:

  • Is associated with a subscription plan (main or add-on).
  • Can include multiple brands, products, and SKUs.
  • Moves through a defined set of states — Draft, Published, Unpublished, Expired — allowing safe preparation before going live.
  • Provides automatic generation of ARShades links for embedding in websites, apps, or campaigns.

Purpose of Catalogues​

Catalogues serve several key functions:

  • Organisation: Centralise all eyewear assets for a specific brand, campaign, or subscription.
  • Customisation: Name the catalogue and set its SEO metadata. Branding, colours, logo and cover image belong to the catalogue's public page and are set in the Design Catalogue.
  • Publication Control: Decide which assets are visible, and manage their display priority.
  • Integration: Export ARShades links and embed them into e-commerce sites, apps, or digital catalogues.
  • Analytics: Monitor usage data and customer engagement across catalogues (if enabled).

Who Can Do What​

Catalogues are shared: everyone in your organisation sees the same catalogues, and there is no per-role split between creating, editing and publishing them. If you can see a catalogue, you can work on it.

The only accounts held back are the ARShades production roles — Modeller, Modeller Supervisor and Validator. They work on the 3D assets, so they can open a catalogue and export it, but the buttons that change it are not shown to them. Modeller and Modeller Supervisor do not see the Analytics button on a catalogue card either.

What decides which catalogues you see is your organisation and its subscriptions, not your position in a team.

Lifecycle of a Catalogue​

A catalogue card always shows its current state as a coloured label:

  1. Draft — created and customised but not publicly accessible. A draft can be modified, published, or deleted.
  2. Published — live and accessible via its subdomain and ARShades links. It can be modified, unpublished, or deleted.
  3. Unpublished — temporarily disabled without deleting data. It can be modified, republished, or deleted.
  4. Expired — the catalogue has reached the end of its validity and is no longer reachable. It can still be modified or deleted, but not republished from the catalogue card: contact support to bring an expired catalogue back online.
Two more labels you may see

Pending and Maintenance also exist in Studio, but they are reserved for future use and are not part of the normal catalogue lifecycle today.

Why Catalogues Matter​

Catalogues are the foundation for delivering ARShades solutions. Without a catalogue, you cannot:

  • Integrate the VTO or 3D Viewer into your website or app.
  • Distribute links for product experiences.
  • Track asset usage and performance analytics.

In summary, catalogues provide a structured, flexible, and controlled way to manage your eyewear assets, ensuring that only validated and published content reaches your customers.