Introduction To Categories

Introduction to categories

In this article, we will learn about what categories are and how they can be used to order your items in a really logical and accessible way.

You may sell hundreds of items and want your customers to navigate of all your products with ease. And categories help you do just that by enabling you to clearly mark out different parts of your website. Following this article, you will be able to use categories to give your website a unique structure that suits the needs of your business and mirrors that of a real-life department store. Laying out your website in this way improves customer experience and makes you look more professional.

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What is a category?

Categories are collections of groups which all have something in common between them, and groups are in turn just collections of items which all have something in common between them.

In this sense, think of a category as a “department” in a supermarket. You walk in and immediately see different departments such as “jewellery” or “footwear”.

And inside these departments, you have aisles, which in turn hold certain items, and this is how groups and their associated items behave within your categories.

Enter 'Categories' area

Open the editor, click Basket, and select Categories.

Edit category

To view the contents of a category, look for the blue Edit button on the right hand side.

Example categories

Inside the category, you can use this area to select groups for the category. If we think of this category, “Women's Dresses”, as like a department in a supermarket, the groups inside the category (such as “Best Sellers”) are like aisles within that particular department.

And if you were to enter one of these aisles (or groups), you will find all the items that belong in that group – namely, best sellers.

You can also move these groups around in a way that suits your specific ordering preferences by holding down and dragging the thumbnail.

Create 'Categories' area

Open Basket and then go back to Categories.

Click 'New category'

What can I do in the 'New category' section?

In the category editor, you need to insert:

A name
Description
Relevant image
Groups belonging to the category

That's it!

You should now understand how categories work and how they can be applied to replicate the structure of a real-life shop.

Introduction to categories

In this article, we will learn about what categories are and how they can be used to order your items in a really logical and accessible way.

What is a category?

Enter 'Categories' area

Edit category

Example categories

Create 'Categories' area

Click 'New category'

What can I do in the 'New category' section?

That's it!

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