Manage product categories

  • Updated on 21 July 2023
  • 4 min read

If you've got a handful of products to sell, organizing them into a few nice and tidy categories makes it easier for customers to find what they want to buy. It can also make managing your products behind-the-scenes a lot easier.

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Get organized

Come up with categories that will help your shoppers quickly find the products they want to buy. That might include:

  • Apparel

  • Footwear

  • Jewelry

  • Albums

  • Pins

  • Stickers

When you create a category, and assign at least one active product to it, a link to that category will automatically appear in your store navigation on the Products page. Some themes, like Neat, even include an option to use categories (or "collections") as a landing page for browsing products.

Got a lot of product categories to manage at once? Check out the bulk edits feature to streamline your process.

Steps

  1. Log in at my.bigcartel.com.

  2. Go to Products.

  3. Choose the action menu and then Manage categories.

  4. Choose Add category to create your first category and + to add more.

  5. Choose any existing category and hit the trash icon to delete it.

  6. Hit Save.

  7. To sort products into categories go to the Products page.

  8. Choose a product listing and hit the Categories button.

  9. Check off which categories to sort the product into and hit Done and Save at the bottom.

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