Managing Product Categories

Product categories allow you to easily categorise your products. You can have any number of categories or sub-categories, and each product can belong to any number of categories.

Creating a Category

To create a category, click the Create Sub-Category tab from the top of the right-hand pane when the Products tab is selected in the left-hand pane. The category you create will be a sub-category of the category that is displaying in the right-hand pane.

Enter the category title and click Save Category. Note that you can also choose to enter furhter details about using the WYSIWYG editor.

Editing a Product Category

To edit a product category, select the category you want to edit from the left-hand pane and then click Edit Category from the top of the right hand page.

Update the details as required and click the Save Category button to save your changes.

Managing Category Files

You can assign any number of files to a category by clicking the Manage Category Files tab when viewing a category. This is useful if you want to assign an image to a category for output on your web site.

Select any files as required then click the Save Files button to save your changes.

Deleting a Product Category

To delete a product category, select the category you want to delete from the left-hand pane and then click Delete Category from the top of the right hand page. You will then be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the category.

Click the Yes, delete the category button to confirm deletion.

Note

Deleting a category will not cause any products to be deleted, but all sub-categories contained within the deleted category will also be deleted.