FAQ - Category Management

Adding a Category
How to add a new category to your shopping page

Moving a Category
You can move a single Category or multiple Categories in bulk via the E-Commerce > View Products area

Moving Categories to Sub-categories via Drag-Drop
You can quickly reorganise your categories to become sub-categories

Deleting a Category
You can delete a Category, but if products exist in the website you must delete the products first.

Redirect a Category to another Category
If you want your customers to access a category from multiple locations you can create an empty category and set a redirect

All Products Categories - All Products, New Products, On Special, Brands, etc.
As well as adding your own custom categories you can add an automated category that shows products based on what option you choose. You can also use this to auto-populate categories for brands, suppliers, manufacturer, or your extra fields.

All Products - On Special: How to show specials
Specials only show in this category if is a difference in RRP vs Checkout Price (Not auto-discounts)

Adding information that will appear in all Products in a Category (as an Information Tab)
You can add information to a category area that will appear as an information tab on all products in the category (Additional Information Category Wide)

Part Finder - Make / Model / Year / Variant Relationships
Or do you need to create relationships between your products, and the make/model/type of products where they can be applied? eg Car automotive industry, some parts fit many different types of cars. Yes you can

Make/Model/Year Search
Typical use case, when selling cars. You might list your cars with data associated for make/model/variant year.

Product Sorting Dropdown
In the ecommerce > Display Options area you can check a box 'Show Product Sorting Dropdown' to show a product sorting option on the Product list page. Sorting can also be changed globally and per category.

Hiding a Category and the Products within via cascade security settings
by default hiding a category does not hide the products within it. By checking the cascade security options found in the Category settings area the security setting you choose for the categories can be applied to the subcategories and products within.

Adding content to the top of a Category Page
You can add content into the intro area of any category

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