Time needed: from 2 minutes 🕑
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Let's find out what are the peculiarities of working with product categories.
Important: a product can have only one main category. If you do not plan to change it, but just need to display the product in several categories, specify additional categories for it. There can be as many as you want.
How to change the category for the product
In the Website → Pages section, check which product template is set for it:
The category in which the product is currently located;
The category to which you plan to move the product.
If the product templates in both categories match, you can proceed to making changes.
Important: If different product templates are set for the categories, transferring products will result in the loss of main and variant attributes that were filled in in the products.
To ensure that you can restore product data after changing the section, we recommend that you export the products in the Excel (advanced) format and export the attributes of the original template and save the file on your PC before making changes.
Changing the product category manually
Step 1.
In the Products section of the admin panel, open the product you want to edit.
Step 2.
In the Main info → Category section, change the category to the desired one.
Step 3.
Save your changes.
Changing the product category via import
Step 1.
Prepare a file with a list of the required SKUs and Categories to which you want to move the products.
Important: the names of the categories must be fully identical to their names on the website.
💡 Tip:
You can quickly get a list of products by exporting them. In the export file, delete all columns except for the SKU and Category that can be edited.
Step 2.
In the admin panel Products section, click Import and open or drag the edited file.
Step 3.
Click the Import button. Set up actions with products:
New products — Do not import
Existing products — Update
Products out of stock — No actions.
Step 4.
Start the import and wait for the process to be completed.
How to specify an additional categories
A product can have only one main category. But in cases where you want the product to be displayed in other categories in addition to the main category, you can assign an additional category to it.
Specifying additional categories manually
Step 1.
In the Products section, go to the desired product settings.
Step 2.
In the Main info → Additional categories section, select the required categories.
If there are several additional categories, hold down the Ctrl (Windows) or ⌘ (macOS) button and click on all the necessary categories in the list.
Step 3.
Save your changes.
Specifying additional categories via import
Step 1.
Prepare a file with a list of the required SKUs and Additional categories in which you want to display the products.
Important: the names of the categories must be fully identical to their names on the website. If there are several categories, specify them separated by semicolons.
💡 Tip:
You can quickly get a list of products by exporting them. In the export file, delete all columns except for the SKU and Additional categories that can be edited.
Step 2.
In the admin panel Products section, click Import and open or drag the edited file.
Step 3.
Click the Import button. Set up actions with products:
New products — Do not import
Existing products — Update
Products out of stock — No actions.
Step 4.
Start the import and wait for the process to be completed.