Categories & collections

Categories are the groups your products belong to — *Rings*, *Earrings*, *Gifting*, *Under ₹999*. You define them once in Settings → Categories, tick them on each product, and they do three jobs at once: customers can filter your products page by category, your storefront can show a category section on the home page, and coupons and Buy-X-Get-Y offers can be limited to one category. A product can sit in more than one category, and the first one you tick is its main category.

Set up categories

1. 1Open Settings → Categories (or search *categories* in Settings). You'll see the Product categories card.
2. 2Type a name into the New category box (e.g. *Bestsellers*) and press Enter or click + Add. Each category appears as a chip with the number of products currently in it.
3. 3Repeat for every group you sell. Keep names short — they become filter chips on your products page, so *Silver Rings* reads better than *Our Beautiful Collection of Silver Rings*.
4. 4Click Save in the bar at the bottom. The list is saved with the rest of your settings.
5. 5When adding or editing a product, open the Categories picker, tick the categories it belongs to, or type a new name to create one on the spot. The first one you tick is the main category.

Category images & descriptions

Once you have at least one category, a Category images & descriptions area appears under the list. For each category you can upload an image (up to 2MB) and write a one-line description. Both are optional. They are used by the Category Cards section on your storefront — the tiled "browse by category" block you can add from the Design tab — so a category with a good photo looks far more clickable than a plain text chip. If you delete a category, its image and description are removed with it.

Where categories show up

• Products page filters — customers tap a category chip to narrow the list. In Settings → Pages & policies you can switch the filters from inline chips to a left sidebar that also adds attribute and price filters.
• Home page — add a category section (Browse by Category / Category Cards, depending on your template) from the Design tab. It fills itself from your categories automatically.
• Products tab — the All categories dropdown filters your own product list, and the table view has a Category column.
• Discounts — the Applies to → A category option on coupons and offers lists your defined categories, plus any category names already used on products.

Rename, merge or delete a category

There is no rename button — to rename, add the new name, re-tick it on the affected products, then remove the old chip with its ×. Removing a chip only removes it from the defined list; products that still carry the old name keep it until you edit them, and the old name will reappear in the Import from existing products button until those products are updated.

Category names are matched without regard to capital letters, so *Short Necklace* and *SHORT NECKLACE* are treated as the same category rather than two. If you type a name that already exists in a different case, the store keeps the capitalisation you used first.

Good to know

• A product with no category is still sold normally — it simply does not appear under any filter chip.
• Use a category like *Sale* or *New arrivals* as a merchandising tool: tick it on a handful of products, point a coupon at it, and feature it on the home page. Untick when the promotion ends.
• Categories are per store. If you run two stores they each have their own list.
• Importing a store with the Importer carries categories across automatically; check this screen afterwards and tidy any duplicates.