I am having trouble creating a product catalog in SharePoint Online. (The actual issue I am having is that it appears that the Content Search web part is not filtering my products by the navigation search term and therefore returns no results, which I will ask on a separate thread, depending on the results of this thread.)
Does Office 365 SharePoint support product catalogs? I am finding conflicting information online. There are many old posts that indicate it was only support on the on-premises version, however, SharePoint online does indeed allow me to activate the cross-site publishing feature, enable a list/library as a catalog, connect a catalog, and add a CSWP, all of which are supposedly not available with SharePoint Online. In addition, the following support page shows how to connect a catalog:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-and-disconnect-a-publishing-site-to-a-catalog-in-SharePoint-df2bdea4-ceb0-459a-91d2-a47a1d807d71?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
In short, it seems that I have all the parts of a product catalog, except for the Product Catalog site template.