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In this
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tutorial, we'll take a look
at creating our first product category.
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So categories are a way of visually
grouping products
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and presenting them to your end users.
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How you group
your products is completely up to you,
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but it's key to focus on
making the navigation
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and location of products within categories
as simple and intuitive as possible.
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So for example,
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if you have business cards,
if you have letterheads,
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if you have compliments, slips, calendars,
whatever it may be,
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they can all be added
under a single category called stationery.
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It's also possible
to create subcategories.
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We'll briefly
cover that in this tutorial as well.
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But all of those topics I just mentioned
so business cards and letterheads
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could, for example, be subcategories
within
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the stationery category.
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So to
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begin this process, we
need to navigate to the categories page.
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So that's under catalog categories.
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And manage categories.
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All of our categories will be displayed
here.
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At the moment, we don't have any.
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So what we're going to do
is click on Add New.
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That will take us to the Category Settings
page.
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There's loads of different bits
of information that we can enter here
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in association with our category.
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We won't go through
all of these options now.
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We'll just focus on a few of them.
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So first of all,
we have the published option
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that's just going to determine
whether or not the category
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and its associated products are visible
to end users on your storefront.
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You've also got the ability to show
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the category on the home page
if you wish to do so.
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So we'll give you a link.
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Basically on the home page
you click the link to the category
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and it will show you
all of its associated products.
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If you do decide to show in
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the home page,
as we've seen in other areas of Infigo,
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you have this display order
so you can control the order
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in which those categories are displayed.
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We also have this parent category option.
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Now, this is where we look
at the subcategories that I was just
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talking about.
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So for example,
if you have a stationery category,
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as we were talking about earlier on,
so a top level category,
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but want to further group products
into, let's say, pens and paper.
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Then you would need
to create two subcategories
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which are associated with the stationery
top level category.
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So let's say, for example, the Pens
category, we would create a new category
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in the same way as this,
which would be called pens.
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And if you wanted to associate
that with the stationery category,
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you would select it
from this parent category dropdown list.
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For this tutorial, we're not
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bothered with subcategory,
so we'll just leave it as non.
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So we'll type in some information,
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we'll give it a name,
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and I'll just give it
some basic description details.
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There's some bits of pricing
that you can do in here,
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but it's mainly just text driven.
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It's not going to influence the
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calculations of prices in the basket
or things like that.
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So for example,
we have prices from allows you to add
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text to describe
where prices start in this category.
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You can see where the little
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tool tip there.
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And down at the bottom
we have price ranges as well.
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Now, this will affect the search options
as you can again see with the description.
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So you can put in some price ranges
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and filters
that you want to associate this with.
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So back to the descriptions
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and we can also upload
an image for the category.
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This isn't a requirement, but it's
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suggested that you do so.
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There's quite a few places on your store
front when you have some categories
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where you might see
an icon associated with the category.
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If you don't have an image
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associated with it, then you will probably
just see this twice holder image,
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which obviously doesn't look
particularly neat and tidy.
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So we'll just put words in image
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and then
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before we move on, I'm
just going to actually save this category.
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So the next major step that we need to do
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is to associate products
with the category.
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But we can't actually do that
until we save
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the information that we've entered here.
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So I'm just going to go
and save and continue. Edit
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And you can see as a result of that,
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I have a few more action buttons
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in the top right of the screen here
than I had a second ago.
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So one of them allows me
to view the product page
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that actually shows me the category page.
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So if I click on this now,
it will load of the category page,
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but there won't be any
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products associated with it
because we haven't done that step yet.
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However, we do see the descriptions
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we have copy category.
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So if you want to make a carbon
copy of the category to make the process
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of creating additional categories
a bit easier,
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and then we've got to delete options.
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Delete by itself,
we'll just delete the category but
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won't touch the products
that are associated with it.
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Delete and all products, as the name
suggests, that will delete the category
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and any products
that you've associated with it.
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So do be careful when you are using
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those options.
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So next we want to associate some products
with our category.
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So if I go to the products tab,
you can choose
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how the products that we select are going
to be sorted within the category.
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So you've got the option to choose there.
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And then I'm going to click on this adds
a new product icon
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that will load up a separate window,
which is a full list
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of all of the products that I have
available on this particular storefront.
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We can refine down the list of products
if we wish to do
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so as a large list
we need to sift through.
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But for the purposes of this tutorial,
I'm going to add all three
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of my creative products to this
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category.
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You'll see they come in.
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There's another couple of options
associated with this.
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One is the featured product.
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So that's if you want to actually
display it on the home page
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and then we have the display order.
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So we've seen this a few times.
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It allows us to control the order
in which a product is displayed.
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Okay, so let's save that.
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And now I'm just going to refresh
the category
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on my storefront
and you can see the all of those products
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that were associated with that
category are
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now displaying.
