Categories & attributes

Two tools keep a growing catalog tidy. Categories group your items into a tidy hierarchy so you can find them and see how each part of the store sells. Attributes add your own custom fields to items — a material, a colour, a warranty flag — beyond the built-in name, price, and SKU.

Categories

A category is a group of items, e.g. Trophies or Engraving. Categories form a hierarchy: a category can sit at the top level or under a parent, and nest as deep as you like. Each item belongs to one category (or none).

Create a category

Go to Catalog → Categories and press New category, then fill in:

• Name — what the group is called, e.g. Beverages.
• Parent category — search for one to nest under, or leave it at Top level (no parent) for a root category.

Press Create. On any row you can press Add subcategory to create a child under it, Edit to rename it or move it under a different parent, or Delete it.

What happens when you delete a category

Deleting a category is not a cascade — nothing else is removed:

• Any direct subcategories move up to the top level — they keep their own sub-categories nested under them.
• Any items in that category simply lose it (they become uncategorised); the items themselves are kept.

Put an item in a category

You don’t assign items from the Categories page — you set an item’s category on the item itself. When you add or edit an item (Manage your items), use the Category box to search for one, or type a new name to create the category on the spot. Leave it blank for No category. An item only ever has the one category.

Where categories show up

Your Sales by category report (Reports) breaks takings down by category, so you can see which parts of the store earn their keep. Items with no category are totalled under Uncategorized.

Attributes

An attribute is a custom field you add to items — anything the built-in fields don’t cover, like Material, Colour, or Gift wrap. You define an attribute once, and it becomes a field you can fill in on every item.

Create an attribute

Go to Catalog → Attributes and press New attribute, then fill in:

• Name — what the field records, e.g. Material.
• Description — optional note about what it’s for.
• Type — pick one of the four below. It sets what kind of value the field holds.

The type you pick decides the rest of the form:

Type	Holds	Options you set
Text	Free text	An optional maximum length.
Selection	A choice from a list	The list of options, and whether you can allow multiple selections or just one.
Number	A number	Decimal precision — how many digits after the decimal point (0–10).
Toggle	A yes/no switch	The default value (On or Off).

Press Create. The list shows each attribute’s name, type, and a short summary of its settings.

A couple of things can’t change once an attribute exists: its type is fixed after creation, and for a Selection whether it allows multiple choices is fixed too. Everything else — the name, description, a selection’s options, a number’s precision, a toggle’s default — you can still Edit later.

Fill in attribute values on an item

Every attribute you create shows up as a field when you add or edit an item, matched to its type:

• Text is a text box, Number is a number box, and Toggle is a Yes / No picker.
• Selection is a dropdown when it’s single-choice, or a set of tick boxes when it allows multiple.

Leave a field blank and it’s simply left off that item — attributes are always optional per item.

What happens when you delete an attribute

Deleting an attribute removes the field definition only. Values already saved on items are left as-is — it’s not a cascade. This can’t be undone, so you’d be recreating the attribute from scratch if you needed it back.