Adding Categories and Sub-Categories to your Online Shop

Creating a category and sub-category

You can use our online demo in order to test the simple process of adding a category and a sub-category to your online store: http://www.ekmpowershop.com/ecommerce-software-demo.asp. Assuming you are logged into either your own account or the online demo and viewing the home page of the shop, simply follow the below steps:

1. At the top right of the page you will see three buttons. These are 'Add Product', 'Add Category' and 'Hide / Show Edit Buttons'.
   
   




2. If you click onto 'Add category' You will then be taken in to the section that asks you for the information regarding that category, i.e. the category title and a short description if required (recommended). Once you are happy with the title and the short description, click 'add':
   
   




3. You will then be prompted to add an image to the category. This is also recommended and will be a small image visible next to the category title where the category is listed on your home page:
   
   




4. Selecting 'Yes' will prompt you to either upload an image or use one that you may have already uploaded to your ekmPowershop:
   
   




5. Clicking 'upload new image' will take you through the steps in copying an image from your machine onto the ekmPowershop server to use with your category/sub-category. Clicking 'browse' will allow you to browse your machine for the image you wish to upload while clicking 'upload' will send that image to the server:
   
   




6. Once the image is uploaded to the server you will see the following confirmation that the 'item' has now been added:
   
   




7. Clicking 'done' will take you to the page within your site that you have added the category to. You should then see something similar to the below:
   
   
   
   The button will allow you to edit the title, description and image accordingly.
   
   The button will of course remove that category from your shop. This can only be done if there is nothing within that category.
   
   The button simply allows you to move that category up or down the list of categories on that page.
   
   

Tutorial: Adding a sub-category

The process for adding a sub-category is very much the same, except you must first navigate into the category itself before clicking the 'add category' button again. Using the example above, you would click on 'Shoes' to enter that category.

Once inside the category you wish to add a sub-category to, you would then click the button once again. You will then see the following options:



The properties for sub-categories are the same as categories, in the sense that they can be edited, deleted and moved up or down the page they are located on in the same way.



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