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To create a category, click on the "Add new" button and fill out the form.

General options

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Make sure to fill each field in every language that your shop supports. In order to do that, click on the little flag next to the field, choose the flag of the language in which you wish to edit the text.

First of all, give you must enter a set of general options:

  • Name. Give your category a name, then

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  • indicate if it is "displayed" (i.e., whether or not it will be available to your customers). For example, you may want to postpone displaying a new category to your customers because you have not quite completed it.
  • Parent Category

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  • . If you wish to create a subcategory belonging to a category other than the home page, choose the category under which it will appear.
  • Root Category

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  • . You might want to use this new category as the new root category, instead of "Home". If so, check the radio button that applies.
  • Description

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  • . You should fill this field, because not only will it be useful to you or your employees, but some themes might also make use of it, displaying it to your customers.
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  • . Click on "Browse" to upload an image from your computer which will represent this your category.

Then, the form presents you with a few Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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fields. This information will help you optimize the visibility of your catalog on search engines.

  • Meta title. The title that will appear on the search engines when a request is made by a customer
  • Meta description. A presentation of your site in just a few lines, intended to capture a customer's interest. This will appear in search results
  • Meta Keywords. Keywords that you must define in order to have your site referenced by search engines. You can enter several of them, separated by commas, as well as expressions, which must be indicated in quotation marks.
  • Friendly URL. Enables you to rewrite the addresses of your categories as you wish.
    For example, instead of having an address such as
    http://www.myshop.prestashop.com/category.php?id_category=3
    you can have:
    http://www.myshop.prestashop.com/123-name-of-the-category
    In this case, all you would need to do is indicate in the field marked "Friendly URL" the words that you wish to see appear instead of "name-of-the-category" separated by dashes.Groups

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  • Group access. Restricts select categories and products from to certain shoppers. To see these categories, your shoppers must belong to a user group. Check out the group functions "Groups" page in the "Customers" tab for more information.

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Once you have finished configuring your categoriescategory, you can save them while staying on the same page by clicking on the button "Save", or saving and coming back to the previous category by clicking on "Save and Back to Parent Category".
Note: Each of the fields has a flag located to its right, indicating that it can be configured in several languages. For more information on this feature, please see the language management feature, in the "Tools" tab.must save it.

Managing and Adding Products in the Catalog

At the bottom of the catalog page, under "Products in this category", you can manage the products in your store. Once you have created your category, you will be able to add You can manage the products in your shop using the "Products" page, in the "Catalog" menu. You can see the existing products and few details, and add new products by clicking on "Add a new product". A form will appear, with several tabs will appearin the left column.

In the following sections, we will explore these tabs one by one. We begin with the first tab in the form, which enables you to fill out the general information about your products.

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