Categories group your products so your customers find them faster. This guide covers creating them, nesting them and putting them in order.
Open the categories
Open Sells → Products and press Categories above the list. The page has a form on the left and your categories on the right.
Create a category
In the form, fill in:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Name | The name your customers see. Required. |
| Slug | The last part of the category's address in your store. Leave it empty and it is made from the name. |
| Description | A text about the category. |
| Image | The picture of the category. The home page of the default design shows it as a round picture above the category's name. |
Press Save. The category joins the list, and the form empties for the next one. Its image lands in the Categorias folder of your file library.
Subcategories
Press Add subcategory on a category. The form shows that category as Parent Category; fill in the rest and press Save. The list shows each subcategory under its parent, with an arrow.
Categories go three levels deep: a category, its subcategories, and theirs. The third level has no Add subcategory.
Edit, order and delete
On each row of the list:
- Edit fills the form with the category. Change it and press Save. Clean empties the form without saving, to start a new category instead.
- Move up and Move down change the order of the top-level categories.
- Delete removes the category at once, without asking first.
Where categories show
- On the product form, the Category list shows every category in the same order, with each subcategory under its parent, marked with
-, and the third level with--. See Products. - On your store, the home page and the menu show the categories that have products, and each category has its own page with its active products. See Your storefront.