Organise products with categories

Create a category

1. Open Products → Categories.
2. Create a category with a name and URL handle.
3. Add its description and image when useful. Under an uploaded image you can select Change background to put the product in it on white, a colour or a transparent background, the same way as for product photos.
4. Choose its status and order, then save.

Use a stable handle: it becomes the address of the category's own page on your storefront, /collections/your-handle, and is used to match products in an import. Link to that address from your menus and pages. Changing the handle later breaks links people have already saved or shared.

Assign organisation to products

1. Open a product.
2. On Basics, choose its required category.
3. Save and check the product card on the storefront.

Making a category Hidden removes that category from storefront category navigation. It does not unpublish products assigned to it; change a product's own status to Draft when the product itself must be hidden.

Import behaviour

A product CSV can create a missing category by name or handle. It never creates a missing tax class. Category imports match existing categories by handle.