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Holiday Catalog Readiness Maturity Matrix 2026
Holiday catalog problems are rarely found in October — customers find them in November. This two-page matrix helps your team see, in about five minutes, where your catalog is most exposed before holiday traffic arrives.
Read each row, pick the statement that sounds most like your team today, and the second page tells you what that level means for customers, sales at risk and time to fix — plus one practical action for this week.
- Format
- PDF · 2 pages · 0.8 MB
- Time
- About 5 minutes
- Access
- Free, no sign-up
What's inside
Six areas that break at peak
Product content, search and filters, holiday collections, shopping feeds, promotions and stock, and bulk changes.
Four maturity levels
Reactive, Basic, Managed and Peak-ready — each written as a plain statement you can recognise your team in.
What your level means at peak
For each level: what customers see, which sales are at risk, and how long an issue typically takes to fix.
One action for this week
A concrete next step per level, from testing prices and stock on your top 20 products to rehearsing a rollback.
How to use it
- 1Print it or open it with your team — it works best as a 5-minute conversation, not a solo exercise.
- 2For each of the six rows, circle the level that matches what actually happens today, not what's planned.
- 3Turn to page 2 and start with your lowest-scoring rows: do the "this week" action for each.
- 4Repeat a few weeks before peak to check the gaps have closed.
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