Manage Categories
At the category management page, you can manage your product categories.
You can create new categories, manage your existing categories, manage the different language versions of your categories or delete categories.
Categories are organized as a tree, each category has a parent category. Primary categories have the root of the tree as parent.
Default category view (collapses subcategories):
The category list shows an overview of all the shop’s categories and is presented in a tree view.
The information displayed, includes the category name and category key (in brackets), an arrow indicator, if this category contains subcategories (indicated by an up or down arrow next to the name and key) and in a second row, the numerical category ID.
One or more flag icons show all available languages for each category. A green border around the flag indicates, that this category is present for this language. If the category was not created for a language, a red border is shown.
Please note: When creating categories for multiple languages, make sure that all parent categories of the category you want to display, down to the root category, are present for a specific language. Since categories are organized like trees, if the parent categories are not available or missing in a certain language, the subcategory in that language won’t display either.
Special system categories have a light gray color scheme for the category name/category key line.
If a category was created by a vendor with category management privileges or the category was set for one or multiple vendors, the IDs of the vendors will be displayed alongside the other category details.
A category tree with a vendor category:
When you open the category management page, as default the category management page will only show the primary categories in the category list view. If subcategories are present, it will be indicated by an arrow icon next to the category and category key (in brackets)
Click on the category name or the arrow icon to expand the category tree at the selected category and display the subcategories of the selected category.
Expanded category view (expanded category):
You can expand a category to view it’s subcategories by clicking on the arrow next to the category title. If a view is already expanded, clicking again will close the expanded tree part.
Click on the ID of the category or the edit icon to open the category details page where you can edit all the category’s properties and settings.
Click on one of the category’s flags to edit the language specific fields of the category at the multilanguage properties page.
Additional functions are available through the action icons on the right side of each category.
Vendors with category management privileges, only have limited access to the category management functions. They can only add new categories and edit categories, they added themselves and are set for them. If a category is set for multiple vendors, only the administrator will be able edit/delete those categories.
Clicking on the Facebook icon, will activate or deactivate a selected category for the Facebook version of the shop. The Facebook icon in the list is color coded. Click on the gray Facebook icon, to activate a category for the Facebook shop, click on a blue Facebook icon to deactivate the selected category for Facebook again.
The Facebook icon is only available, if the Facebook shop functionality was enabled.
Click on the edit icon to edit the selected category and all it’s properties and settings at the category details page
Click on the multilanguage edit icon to edit the category’s language specific fields only.
Click on the plus icon to create a new subcategory for the selected category.
Click on the trash icon to delete a category.
Please note: A category can’t be deleted, if subcategories for that category exist. Delete the subcategories first, before deleting a parent category.