Managing Product Categories

Video Tutorial

Overview

Product categorization is a powerful feature that helps organize your inventory and improve user experience. By grouping similar products together, you provide customers with an intuitive navigation system while also optimizing your store for search engines.

Example of category links shown at the top of the page

Benefits of Categories

• Improved User Experience: Customers can easily find related products
• Enhanced SEO: Proper categorization helps search engines understand and index your products
• Streamlined Navigation: Category pages automatically display relevant products
• Simplified Inventory Management: Group and manage similar products efficiently

Creating Categories

Assigning Categories to Products

You can assign categories to products in two ways:

Adding a New Category

1. go to the product creation page or product edit page
2. Go to the categories section
3. Click on "Manage Categories" button
4. In the category dialog box, select "Add New Category"
5. Enter the category name and click "Save"
6. If you want attach the new category select it in the dropdown menu after it was created

This shows the manage categories button on the edit page. You can see the save category button on the categories section.

Dialog shows where to manage categories

When done creating or editing a category you can attach it to a product. This shown the create page

Managing Existing Categories

Editing Categories

1. Go to the create page or edit page
2. Go to the categories section
3. To attach a category on the create page select it and click the save button to go to the next step of the product creation process
4. To attach a category on the edit page select it and click the save button to update the product

Managing Subcategories

Subcategories allow you to create a hierarchy of categories. This is useful for organizing products into more specific groups.

An example of subcategories is the type of bounce house for example "castle themed "or "sports themed". The main category is "bounce house".

1. Navigate to the "Manage Categories" section
2. Locate the category you wish to remove
3. Click the right arrow on a main category to manage a subcategory
4. You can create a new subcategory by clicking the "Add New Subcategory" button

click on the arrow to manage a subcategory

Deleting Categories

1. Navigate to the "Manage Categories" section
2. Locate the category you wish to remove
3. Click the delete icon next to the category name
4. If products are assigned to this category, a confirmation dialog will appear
5. Review the listed products that will be affected
6. Confirm deletion or cancel as needed

Customizing Category Pages

You can customize the category and subcategory pages by writing text at the top of the page.

You are able to add custom text to the category page.

You are able to change the title (text in tab of browser) of page for SEO purposes.

You can go to the customize category page by going to the navbar and clicking on 'site pages' then 'category pages' menu button

How to customize the category page.

You can scroll to a category to make updates. When done you can click on 'view page' to see the changes in the category page