Adding Categories

There are 2 possible ways to add a category in X-Cart - manual and via import facilities. This article is devoted to a manual category creation.

• Adding Categories
• Addinng Subcategories
• Managing Categories/Subcategories Listings

Adding Categories

To add a new category in an X-Cart store catalog:

1. In the Categories section of your store Admin area (Catalog -> Categories) click the New Category button.

2. In the field that appears, enter a category name you require.

   You can add as many new categories as you require at a time.

3. Click Save.

You’ll see the category you’ve just created in the list.

Now you can proceed with adding an image to the category, editing the category properties and populating it with products.

Addinng Subcategories

A category can have one or several subcategories that are created in a similar way as they in fact are categories of a lower level. Subcategories are created on the Subcategories tab of the category details page with the New Category button.

To edit a category/subcategory properties click the category/subcategory name on the listing page and follow the procedures described in Editing Category Details.

Managing Categories/Subcategories Listings

A category listing page of your store Admin area (Catalog -> Categories) allows a store admin to maintain the categories sorting in the storefront, to enable/disable categories and to delete them completely if required.

The listing page also displays for a category:

• a clickable number of featured products;
• a clickable number of subcategories;
• a clickable number of products in this particular category.

The value in brackets shows the overall number of products in both that category and all its subcategories.

A category listing page in the storefront displays only the products assigned to the category itself but not to its subcategories.