That would be a good idea. You need to know how the images will be used in more detail... the size they will be displayed, the background, how large the products are, etc.

I did a similar job for a friend's website some years ago... it involved about 200 items, all small enough to be photographed on a tabletop (but not so small as to require "macro"). I set up lighting, determined my exposure and locked it down, set a custom white balance and arranged a seamless stage, then put camera and lens on a tripod. I made a couple reflectors and flags that I could move around as needed to fine tune the lighting.

Once the setup was established, things went quickly. She only asked for one shot of each, but for most I took several views to give her choices. I deliberately used a shorter lens (manual focus 45mm Tilt Shift on an APS-C camera) that allowed me to reach out and arrange the subjects while viewing them through the viewfinder. I could have tethered the camera to a computer to do similar, but kept telling myself to "K.I.S.S."

I was able to shoot the entire catalog in little more than an afternoon. I probably took 600 to 800 images total, but I ended up providing around 300 (I culled out dupes, less ideal compositions, issues like reflections). In some cases, smaller, related objects were combined into a single images. Since color balance and exposure were all carefully set in advance and I used the seamless (matte white plastic) stage and background, there was virtually no post-processing needed. It was mostly just a matter of selecting the images to include, all of which I was able to do in 2 or 3 hours that evening.

I had shot RAW + JPEGs, just in case... But was able to give her the JPEGs straight out of the camera. I made a point of saving to sRGB (instead of Adobe RGB), which is the preferred color space for Internet display. The whole job was done with an older, 8MP camera. But that was more than adequate for her purposes. In the end she got at least two or three views of every item, all burned to a disc which she passed along to her website designer who was able to easily blend image backgrounds with the web pages and had everything up online in a couple days with little fuss or muss.

90% of the job was the setup... When that's done right, the rest can be done relatively quickly and easily. Larger items that can't be shot close-up on a tabletop will take longer to swap out and arrange, so take that into account.