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Managing Product Categories

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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
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:

- When creating a new product, click on the manage categories button on the first step of the production creation process
- When editing an existing product, you can edit a category or subcategory on an any edit product page.
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
Manage Categories button
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
Dialog shows where to manage categories
When done creating or editing a category
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 arrow to manage a subcategory
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.

Go to customize category page
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.
- go to the navbar
- click on "site pages"
- Click on "category pages" menu button
- make edits for the particular category page on the category list page
List of categories for rental product pages where you can make updates
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

For more information, visit our comprehensive documentation or contact our support team.

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