Introduction to Product Categories
Read this introduction to the product categories feature, which allows you to organize your product inventory.
Kevin Penner
Last Update 9 months ago
For example, you may wish to group your rooms in an Accommodation category and your boat/bike rentals in an Activities category.
Learn more about what information is provided in the next article within this series.
Did you know that Inventory Tags can be used to subcategorize your inventory? Find out more here:
- Introduction to Inventory Tags
A system-generated numerical ID used to identify your product categories in various places.
A good example of this is the use of category IDs on the booking page to isolate a category or categories.
The name of your category. This is visible to the Customer, so choose a name that makes sense to them.
Products
The number of products currently grouped inside the category.
To reduce loading times on the Customer-facing booking page, it is recommended that a maximum of 50 products are assigned to a category.
Status
The Status column provides a quick view of whether the category is Active, Hidden, Archived, or Non-Archived.
If you want to view a list of all categories that fall under one of these particular statuses, then you can do so by selecting that status from the dropdown filter menu at the top.
Selecting All lists all the categories you have created and their current status.
After clicking, a small arrow appears in the header cell, as seen above.
- If the arrow is pointing up, the data in the row is in ascending order.
- If the arrow points down, then the data is in descending order.
Refresh the page to reset the column back to its original state.