Understanding Categories

Categories enable you to organize your products into logical groups so that your customers can easily find them.

If you selected to install samples, by default categories are visible in the front-end of your store. Categories will be displayed on the homepage for a default theme however you can also use the category module to show them anywhere on your store page with a unique display.

You can add as many subcategories as you want to your root category. A vendor can add unlimited subcategories but cannot add subcategories under the admin root category. They can only add subcategories under the vendor root category. In order to accomplish this you will need to set the correct setting in the Vendor Preference.

You can assign a product to as many categories as you want. The application also makes it easy for you to change your category layouts, each category can be displayed differently and determine how they behave.

Step 1 Adding a category

Categories are used to organize products into logical groups, so your customers can easily find them.

From the Catalog Listing, navigate to Categories >> Click New to create a new category

For Vendors

1. From the vendor area, Catalog >> Categories
2. Click New to create new category
3. Follow step 2 to 4
4. Click [Save] once you are done

Step 2 Fill in all the required fields

Most options obtain a tooltip which are indicated by an asterisk (*). that will help you explain its usage.

Name: Enter the name of the category in your language
Alias: Enter an alias, in your language, which will allow you to distinguish categories on the backend
Unique ID: Enter here a UNIQUE name for this category. This identifier should not contain spaces or special characters.
Description: Enter the description of this category in your language.
Picture: Upload an image that best suited for your category.
Parent: Select here the parent category of this one. Select "Home" as a parent if you want to display this category as a root one.

Step 3 Configure the publishing of your category

The Publishing section allows you to set the availability and SEO of your product.

Step 4 Define the Layout of your category

The layout section allows you set the display of your category in the storefront.
If you can to customize the layout of your category, you must enable this option "Use Custom Layout" >> Yes (highlighted below image)