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Your online store's navigation is based on product categories. Categories allow you to organize your product range conveniently for customers, so that they can quickly find what they're looking for. This can, in turn, help with increasing your turnover opportunities.


About categories

Research shows that successful online stores have a maximum of seven main categories, each with a clear, concise name to ensure easy-to-read navigation. Lightspeed eCom allows you to categorize your products in product, overview or text pages.

Product pages A product page displays all of the products in a category. Your customers see product pages when they browse the products in your store. When a customer clicks a product, its product page is displayed with a short description of the product, an image and the ability to add the product to the shopping cart.

Product categories can have up to three levels. If you need more levels, you can create an overview page.

Overview pages Overview pages display the sub-categories of a main category.

Text pages

Text pages contain only text, including layout. You use text pages to tell your customers about your online store, or show terms & conditions, disclaimers and payment and shipping methods. You cannot create sub-categories for a text page.

To add a category

To rearrange categories Buttons and options on the Categories page White space toggles Use these button to increase or decrease the spacing between categories.

Show subitems toggle Use the switch to show or hide sub-categories. Add button

Move to button

The Move to button allows you to move a category from one parent to another.