Categories

Categories are how customers browse your store — Women, Men, Sarees, Kurtas. A product can be in several categories, and a category can sit inside another one.

Add a category#

1. Go to Products → Categories and select Add New.
2. Fill in:
   • Parent Category — leave as Select for a top-level category, or choose one to make this a sub-category (Sarees inside Women).
   • Title (required) — the name customers see. It also sets the address: Silk Sarees is shown at yourdomain/categories/silk-sarees.
   • Description — a line or two about the category, shown on its page.
   • Image (required) — the picture on category cards. Upload one or use Select from Media Folder.
   • Banner Type — Image or Video for the wide banner at the top of the category's page, then Upload Image or Upload Video.
   • Meta Information — switch on to write the category's own Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords and Custom Meta Tags for search engines. Fill in all four: they are used only when Custom Meta Tags is filled too (a harmless <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> will do).
   • Status — Active to show it.
3. Select Submit.

Where categories appear#

• yourdomain/categories lists your top-level categories.
• yourdomain/categories/your-category shows the category's banner, description and products, with filters and sorting.
• On any page, the Categories element shows category cards, and the Products element can show one category's products — see Store elements.
• In your menus: add a link to a category under Layout → Menu Links.

Order and visibility#

• Drag the rows to set the order categories are listed in.
• Set a category to Inactive to hide it. Its products stay on the store and remain reachable through other categories and search.

Putting products in a category#

On the product form, open Categorisation and add the category under Category. A product can be in as many categories as you like — a silk saree can be in both Sarees and Wedding Collection.

Common questions#

Can I delete a category that has products?#

Yes, but check those products first: a product whose only category is deleted is no longer listed under any category. Move them to another category before deleting.

How deep can sub-categories go?#

Keep to two levels — Women → Sarees — for menus that are easy to use on a phone.