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Category Maintenance     Categories Definitions Category — Top level of all products and sub-categories for a store. A category can have products listed immediately beneath it, or have what are called sub-categories. Sub-category — Secondary level of products that allow you to further organize the products you wish to sell. For example; "Clothing" could be a category. "Men's," "Women's," etc. would be sub-categories. You may have as many levels as you wish. Keep in mind that having too many levels will bother your shoppers. Also, too many products in one subcategory will bother your shoppers. If at some point you want to break a sub-category down further, you will have to: Create a new sub-category. Create its sub-categories. Move the products, one by one, to their new subcategory. Either delete or inactivate the old sub-category Product — Actual item you are selling. Underneath the sub-category of "Women's," there may be other sub-categories, such as "Dresses", "Casual Wear", etc. If under Dresses you just list the dresses your store offers, these will be products. The levels end at product. Column definitions Categories — Lists categories by name, in the order you enter them. Move — Click on the arrows to arrange the categories in the order you wish the shopper to view them in. Delete — This option is only available when no sub-category or product has been entered for that category. What do these options do to the shopper side? On the shopper side of your Web site, Categories will show up if there are active sub-categories or products underneath them. You can keep items from displaying by setting the parent category to inactive. The Move option will show the categories in the order you place them in. The Delete option will remove the category from the shopper side of the Web site and from your admin side as well. Be careful when deleting. Adding 1. Enter the category name. You may enter and save up to five names at a time. This action only enters the category name, not the products. 2. Click Save. What does this do to the shopper side? On the shopper side of your Web site, this action allows shoppers to view the categories you enter into your store. Please note, a category will not show up on the shopper side until products are entered into the category. Editing 1. Select a Category to edit by clicking on it. 2. You can do any of the following when editing a category: Activate or Inactivate the category. Add or change the picture associated with the category. Add or change the description of the category. Select a default mall category for products added to the category. 3. Click Save. What does this do to the shopper side? On the shopper side of your Web site , this action allows shoppers to view the categories as you edit them in your store.   Copyright 1999-2000 Sycamore Internet. All Rights Reserved