Create and manage eCommerce product categories on the website

Requirements

This tutorial requires the installation of the following applications/modules:

Ecommerce product categories configuration

First, you need to configure the eCommerce Categories at Website > eCommerce > eCommerce Categories.

eCommerce Categories

Next, hit on the New button to create a new eCommerce Category.

Create a new eCommerce Categories

Input information, then press icon save.

Save eCommerce Categories

To select which products belong to which categories, you navigate to Website > eCommerce > Products. Select the product you want to configure, the product Customizable Desk for instance.

Select product

In the product view, head to the Sales tab, and select the eCommerce categories that they want.

Configure e-commerce categories on products

Click on the icon Save button to apply the setting. Then, you continue to do the same for all products you want to install.

Enable eCommerce categories feature

In order to enable eComerce categories feature, you navigate to the Website application, and then you access to Shop page.

Go to Viindoo website Go to shop view

At the Shop view, you hit on the Edit button, then activate the Categories feature.

Enable eCommerce Categories feature

You have two options to set up the Categories feature, which would mean that you can display them either on the top side or the left side of the screen. For example, if you set it to display on the top side, the system will then display the categories as shown below.

A list of eCommerce categories

How to use eCommerce categories

When clicking on each category, the system will display all products belonging to that category.

Products by eCommerce Categories