In this recipe, we will create a product catalog site. The product catalog site collection will provide the source location for the products list we will use to create catalog connections with.
Follow these steps to create a product catalog authoring site collection:
Navigate to Central Administration in your preferred web browser.
Select Create site collections from the Application Management section:
Provide values for Title, Description, and URL for the new site collection:
Select the Product Catalog template from the Publishing tab:
Enter your username for Primary Site Collection Administrator:
Click on OK.