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Here we show you how to set up various item categories. Fundamentally, item categories are used for the internal grouping of items. For each web shop, a category tree with any number of categories can be created, which can be nested up to 5 levels deep. Any number of items can be assigned to each category, whereby an item can in turn belong to any number of categories.
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Step 1: Open Item Category Overview

Navigate to the Item Categories area by entering “Item Categories” in the search.
Open item category overview
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Step 2: Create Item Category Level 1

To create a first-level category, click the “New” FastTab. The new entry is inserted as the first row in each case. To enable quick editing of a category, the category overview is already editable in the list. The categories can therefore be edited directly in the list by clicking “Edit List”. In our example, we name the first-level item category “Furniture”. Here it is also advisable to use “Office Furniture” as the description and to create the attributes “Height” and “Depth”. You can create the attributes by clicking in an empty row in the “Attributes” menu item and selecting the corresponding attributes. The height should have the default value “170” and the depth the default value “605”.
Create item category level 1
Define attributes for category level 1
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Step 3: Create Item Category Level 2

To create a second-level category, select the “New” FastTab again. The new entry is inserted under the respectively selected parent item category. In our example, we name the category “Chair”. In addition, we use “Office Chair” as the description and assign the category to the parent category “Furniture”. As a result, the new item category “Chair” inherits all attributes of the parent item category.
Create item category level 2
Assignment of Chair to Furniture
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Step 4: Update Item Categories

To synchronize the categories with the web shop system, click the “Update” FastTab in the “Home” ribbon. This updates all categories that have been changed since the last update.All changed item categories are also automatically updated with the next full data update.

Set Up Web Shop Categories

Build the category tree for the web shop.

Set Up Web Shop Items

Maintain items for the web shop.