How to Create Categories in Bagisto

The category is a structure of your catalog. By creating a category, customers can easily find the specific product amongst the lot on your e-commerce website. It is used for making the hierarchical arrangement of your website. Here we have listed down steps to create a new category and root category in Bagisto.

Root Category

Bagisto comes with a default root category, i.e., Root, but you can also create your own root category. The Root Category is not visible on the front end because it acts as a container to contain the categories to be displayed on the website.

Steps to Create a New Root Category in Bagisto

1. Click on Catalog >> Categories >> Create Category as shown in the image below.

   

2. Enter the general values like name, position, and description, and add images.

3. Display Mode - Display mode is about which content detail is visible on the category page. There are three options:

   • Product and Description

   • Product

   • Description

   • Product and Description: When you set the display mode to "Product and Description," then the product and description about the category both will be visible on the front end.

   • Description: When you set the display mode to "Description," then only the category description will be visible on the front end.

   • Product: When you set the display mode to "Product," the product will be visible on the front end.

   

4. Save the category, and a new category will be created by the name of Electronic Items as shown in the image below.

   

5. Now check the product edit page while creating a product, and you will be able to see the newly created category there.

   

Category on Front-End

By following the above steps, you can easily create a new category.