Categories

Group products together for better discovery and management.

The Category is the anchoring object that defines the organizational structure of a product List. A Collections represents various merchandising objectives such as organizational requirements, multi-regional assortments, multi-channel assortments, collections, using separate browsing structures.

Attribute inheritance

The role of the Category is to allow the user to set up items into categories and subcategories. For example, if the category for long-sleeve t-shirts is Clothing > T-shirts > Long-sleeve t-shirts, you can add attributes to each of these categories. The subcategories will inherit these attributes. For example, a “Brand” attribute added to the clothing category will be inherited by t-shirts and long-sleeve t-shirts.

Category

The Category lets you create a tree structure of subcategories to segregate products. Every item must belong to one category or subcategory. There is no limit to the number of categories or subcategories.

Categories and subcategories are best explained with the tree analogy.

The root is the category. As an example, clothing will be the category. The branches coming off of the root are the subcategories of clothing, like shirts and pants. A leaf is the end of a branch, representing the individual product. In this example, a leaf could be a long-sleeve graphic t-shirt. Visually, that would give us something like this:

📘 Example of the Tree Analogy

• Root: Clothing
  • Branch: Shirts
    • Leaf: Long sleeve t-shirts
      • Product: Graphic long sleeve t-shirt 1
      • Product: Graphic long sleeve t-shirt 2
    • Leaf: Short sleeve t-shirts
      • Product: Graphic short sleeve t-shirt 1
      • Product: Graphic short sleeve t-shirt 2
  • Branch: Pants
    • Leaf: Skinny jeans
      • Product: Juniors skinny jean
    • Leaf: Wide-leg jeans
      • Product: Juniors wide-leg jean

Create Category

Navigate to Categories.

Click the + circle in the bottom of the vertical menu.

Add aTitle to the empty category.

Click Enter/Return and the category will be created.

Click the newly-created Category name to add subcategories. A new level will appear to the right of the selected category.

Repeat the steps above for each the new category and subcategory.

NOTE: For first-time Product Catalog users, a blank screen appears with a single empty category.

Add attributes to a category

To add attributes that are relevant to all categories in the category tree, you can add attributes at level 0.

Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) near the LEVEL: 0 icon and select Category Attributes.

In the Category Attributes box on the right, click the + sign to add one or more attributes to the selected category.

Click Save.

NOTE: These attributes are inherited by each category and subcategory of the category. You need to assign the value for these attributes separately for each category.

Add category attributes for subcategory

If there are attributes that are relevant only for a particular category, they can be added specifically to that category.

Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) next to the name of the category you want to edit.

Select Category Attributes.

In the Category attributes section, click the Add category attributes line and select the attribute(s) to add to the subcategory.

Click Save.

Add item attributes to a category

Adding item attributes to a category and subcategories is required to create items. If a category is missing item attributes, no item can be created for that category.

Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) next to the name of the category you want to edit.

Select Item Attributes.

In the Item Attributes section, click the Add Item Attributes line and select the attribute(s) to add to the subcategory.

Click Save.

NOTE: System Mandatory Attributes are separated for each category for easier management. These attributes are shown by default but need to be saved in order to be added to the category. Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) to make attributes mandatory for the category and all of its subcategories. Attributes added to a category are inherited from the category to all of its subcategories. Click Save when completed.

Rename category

Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) icon for any category or subcategory.

Select Rename, enter the new name and click the blue checkbox to accept or x to cancel.

Delete category

Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) icon for any category or subcategory.

Select Delete. In the dialog box, click Delete to confirm or Cancel to stop the deletion.