Editing and Adding Category's
Categories are used to group similar products together and make them easier to find for your customers however Categories are not set on the Website or CMS. Instead, Categories are created automatically from data entered into the product in the Accounting System. These fields are usually called “Category” or “Levels”. You can check what field the Categories is using by looking at the Field Mappings in either CatalogueLINK or CloudLINK.
Change a category
To change a category, you would need to change the name of that category for each item in that Category in your accounting system.
Note: If you only change some products in a category but not all then it may create a new Category.
Using the example below, Lets say I want to change the drill from the “Beds” Category to “Storage”. I would need to change Category 1 for this product to “Storage” and delete Category 2 (Since Storage is only 1 category) in the accounting system and run an import/upload in either CatalogueLINK or CloudLINK.
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Note: if I had left Category 2 as “Beds” there would be a new category created in Storage called Beds.
Create a new Category
To Create a new Category, you would add the Category name to each product that you wanted to display.
Using the example below, Lets say I wanted to make a new Category called “Shed” and then create a sub category called “Tools” and display the drill inside it, I would need to add the “Shed” to category 1 and “Tools” to category 2 to the product in the accounting system, then upload a category image as shown here: Upload Category Images.
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Now ill upload a Shed.jpg and a Tools.jpg so that the Categories have an image!.