Product Categories - How to categorize products in your store

In this article:

How the Categories feature works

Create, delete, and hide Categories

Categorizing products

Check which products are in a category

Remove a product from a category

Add a Category as a Store Page

How to create a sub-menu (navigation bar)

How the Categories feature works

This feature allows you to categorize your products any way you'd like! If you have numerous products or product types, this makes it easier for your customers to navigate your products and select what they want to buy.

You'll create each category and add products to each. Categories will then be displayed on your store page, in the store menu. By clicking on each category, your customers will be able to see only the products within the selected category.

Here's an example of a store using this feature.

Create, delete and hide Categories

Creating, modifying, and removing Categories is simple! See the video or find the steps for each, below.

Create a category

To add a category, follow these steps:

1. Go to Store settings > Product Categories
2. Click Add new > enter the Title and slug
3. Add a description
4. Click Save

You can also create a new category when adding a product, with the Product editor. When editing a product, click  Select a product category > select +Add new in the drop-down menu

Delete a Category

1. Go to Store Settings > Product Categories
2. Select the category you want to delete
3. Click the bin icon

Hide a Category

1. Go to Store Settings > Product Categories
2. Select the category you want to hide
3. Turn off the toggle switch (grey is OFF)
4. Click Save category

Categorizing products

Products can be added to, removed from, or even excluded from Categories.

How to check which products are in a category

There are two ways to check what products are added to each category:

1. Go to Store Settings > Product Categories
2. Locate the category you want to see
3. Click on the Store URL

You'll be taken to your store page with the selected category and the products it contains.

Remove a product from a category

If you wish to remove a product from a category without assigning it to another category, simply select No category from the dropdown and click Save product.

Add a product category as a store page

If you're using Categories for your products, you may want to create a page for a particular category that customers can access from the Navigation menu. That way, only products belonging to the selected category will be shown on this page. 

To do this:

1. Go to the Store customizer
2. Click the Navigation 
3. Click Add link > select CATEGORY  
4. Select the desired category from the dropdown > Save link 
5. Publish

To remove a category from the navigation menu, select the page from menu items > click 'Delete link'.

How to create a sub-menu (navigation bar)

The store customizer allows you to to create a sub menu by adding store pages, a single product page, a product category and/or a link to an external URL. See the image below for an example:

Here is how you create a sub menu for your store's navigation bar.

1. Go to the Store customizer
2. Click the Navigation menu > 'Menu items'
3. Click +Add link > select the type (we used 'Category' as an example)
4. Save link
5. Click +Add link > select the type > Save link
6. Drag the item on top of another menu item
7. The item you drag will be added as a sub item to the menu
8. Publish