A Product Information Management system built for catalogue-heavy businesses that need accurate, consistent product data across print, ecommerce, and digital channels. Telescope PIM gives you one central source of truth, helping your team reduce manual work, avoid costly errors, and get product information where it needs to be.
WHAT IS A PIM SYSTEM?
A Product Information Management system, or PIM, is a central database for managing product information.
For businesses with large or complex product ranges, product data often ends up spread across spreadsheets, websites, catalogue files, supplier documents, and internal systems. This makes it difficult to know which version is correct, and even harder to keep every channel up to date.
A PIM brings that information into one place. Product names, descriptions, specifications, pricing, variants, categories, technical data, and translations can all be managed from a single source of truth.
That product data can then be used across your website, ecommerce platform, printed catalogues, digital brochures, and other sales and marketing materials.
WHAT TELESCOPE PIM DELVIERS
Centralised product information
Telescope PIM gives your business one place to manage product data. Instead of maintaining separate spreadsheets for your website, catalogue, ecommerce platform, and internal teams, your product information can be stored, updated, and managed centrally. This reduces duplicated work, improves version control, and helps ensure every team is working from the same accurate product data.
Bulk uploads and amendments
Managing product information manually can quickly become slow and repetitive, especially when working with large ranges. Telescope PIM supports bulk product uploads via CSV, as well as bulk amendments to existing products. This makes it easier to add new ranges, update specifications, revise product copy, or apply structured changes across large volumes of data.
Catalogue and InDesign workflows
Telescope PIM has been developed with catalogue production in mind. Product data can be structured and exported to support catalogue and InDesign workflows, reducing the amount of manual copy and paste involved in production. This helps improve accuracy, speed up page-building, and reduce the risk of data errors making their way into print.
Website and ecommerce outputs
Product data held in Telescope PIM can also be used across websites and ecommerce platforms. This helps keep your online product information aligned with the same central data used for catalogues and other printed materials, making product launches, range updates, and specification changes easier to manage.
WHEN BUSINESSES TYPICALLY NEED A PIM SYSTEM
Businesses usually need a PIM when product information becomes too large, too complex, or too important to manage through spreadsheets alone.
Product data is spread across spreadsheets
Spreadsheets can work well for small product ranges, but they become harder to manage as more products, people, and channels are added. When multiple versions of a “master” spreadsheet exist, version control becomes unclear. Updates can be missed, errors can be copied across channels, and teams lose time trying to work out which information is correct.
Catalogue production creates bottlenecks
Catalogue-heavy businesses often need to gather product data from multiple places before artwork can even begin. If specifications, pricing, descriptions, and product attributes are managed manually, catalogue production becomes slower and more vulnerable to errors. A PIM helps structure that data earlier in the process, making it easier to feed accurate information into print workflows.
Product information changes regularly
If prices, specifications, ranges, or product details change often, updating every channel manually can become time-consuming. With a PIM, product information can be updated centrally, helping your team keep connected outputs more consistent and reducing the risk of outdated information remaining live.
Your team needs one source of truth
Sales, marketing, ecommerce, catalogue, and customer service teams often rely on the same product information. A PIM gives those teams a shared source of truth, making it easier to find accurate data and reducing the time spent checking, chasing, or correcting product information.
WHY TELESCOPE?
Telescope PIM has been developed around the needs of catalogue-heavy businesses, where product data has to work across both print and digital channels.
Telescope has produced over 15,000 catalogue pages annually for over 20 years. That experience has shaped how we approach product data, catalogue workflows, and the connection between information management and finished output.
We understand the problems that happen when product data is disconnected from the materials it needs to feed. Catalogue production slows down, ecommerce content becomes inconsistent, and teams spend too much time checking, correcting, and re-entering the same information.
Telescope PIM helps bring that process together. It gives your team more control over product data, supports catalogue and InDesign production, and helps keep websites, ecommerce platforms, and printed materials aligned.
PRICING
Choose a plan based on the size of your product range, your storage requirements and the number of channels your data needs to support.
Light
- SKU capacity Up to 10,000
- DAM storage 1TB
- Admin users Up to 3
- Data outputs 1 output
Core
- SKU capacity Up to 25,000
- DAM storage 2TB
- Admin users Up to 5
- Data outputs Up to 2
Pro
- SKU capacity Up to 50,000
- DAM storage 4TB
- Admin users Up to 10
- Data outputs Up to 4
Enterprise
- SKU capacity Over 50,000
- DAM storage Bespoke
- Admin users Bespoke
- Data outputs Bespoke
Not sure which plan fits? We’ll help you find the right setup for your product range, workflows and outputs.
| Feature | Light | Core | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKU capacity | Up to 10,000 | Up to 25,000 | Up to 50,000 | Over 50,000 |
| DAM storage | 1TB | 2TB | 4TB | Bespoke |
| Standard users | ✓ Unlimited | ✓ Unlimited | ✓ Unlimited | ✓ Unlimited |
| Admin users | Up to 3 | Up to 5 | Up to 10 | Bespoke |
| Data outputs | 1 output | Up to 2 | Up to 4 | Bespoke |
| Approval workflow | — | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Branded DAM portals | — | 1 portal | Up to 3 portals | Bespoke |
| Metadata import and export | — | — | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Monthly reporting | — | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| API access | — | — | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Image cropping | — | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| CDN usage | — | — | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
Light £1,295 per month
Core £1,995 per month
Pro £3,495 per month
Enterprise Bespoke pricing
Optional extra
Make feedback and approvals simpler
Proofing tools can be added to help your team manage feedback, reviews and approvals in one clearer workflow.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What does PIM stand for?
PIM stands for Product Information Management. It is a system used to store, manage, and distribute product data from one central location.
What kind of businesses need a PIM system?
PIM systems are especially useful for businesses with large product ranges, complex specifications, regular catalogue production, ecommerce websites, or multiple teams relying on the same product information.
Can Telescope PIM replace our spreadsheets?
Yes. Telescope PIM can replace disconnected product spreadsheets with a central online database, giving your team a more controlled way to manage product information.
Can product data be uploaded in bulk?
Yes. Telescope PIM supports bulk product uploads via CSV files, as well as bulk amendments to existing products. This is useful when adding new ranges or making updates across large volumes of product data.
Can you help us understand how our product data should be structured?
Yes. We can review your current product data, spreadsheets, catalogue requirements, and website needs, then advise on the best way to structure your information inside Telescope PIM.
GETTING STARTED WITH TELESCOPE PIM
Whether your product data is already well organised or spread across spreadsheets, catalogue files, and disconnected systems, we can help you understand what a PIM setup would involve.
A short conversation can help us review your current product information, identify the channels it needs to support, and explain how Telescope PIM could help your team manage product data more efficiently.