Right out of the box, Magento provides a pretty robust catalog functionality. Managing categories and products on a multi-store, multi-currency, multi-language level with a support for custom attributes, catalog search, catalog rules, and alike are features that are likely to suffice for most customers. Sometimes, however, certain integrations or larger and smaller features are requested, that build on top of the existing functionality. Whether to improve user experience or accommodate essential business requirements, catalog customization's play a major role in everyday Magento development.

We are going to customize our catalog behavior by:

• Creating the size guide
• Creating the same day delivery
• Flagging new products

These stand only as a small fragment of what's possible with Magento catalog customizations.

Moving forward, our work is to be done as part of the Magelicious_Catalog module, which we will develop throughout the chapter.