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title: "Categories: organize your catalog | Vivlab POS"
description: "Sort your products into categories and subcategories, change their order, move or hide a category. Categories filter the product list, target a coupon and organize your online store."
url: https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/collections
---

# Categories

A category groups products, by aisle or by family, and can contain subcategories, for example **Clothing > T-shirts**. Categories are shared with the dashboard and your online store, where each one has its own page. At the register, they filter the [product](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/products.md) list and let you reserve a [coupon](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/coupons.md) for certain aisles.

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## What do you want to do?

- [Create a category](#creer-une-categorie)
- [Create a subcategory](#creer-une-sous-categorie)
- [Put products in a category](#ranger-des-produits)
- [Change the order of categories](#reorganiser)
- [Move a category](#deplacer-une-categorie)
- [Hide a category](#masquer-une-categorie)
- [Edit the catalog page](#page-catalogue)
- [Delete a category](#supprimer-une-categorie)

## Create a category {#creer-une-categorie}

The **Categories** page shows your category tree. Each row shows the category's status (**Visible** or **Hidden**) and its number of subcategories.

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1. Open **Store** > **Categories**, then click **Create a category**.
2. In **Content**, enter the **Category name**, for example **Fine foods**. It is also the title and address of the category's page online.
3. Add a **Category description** if needed (the introduction of the online page, also used for search engines) and, in **Image**, a **Category image**.
4. Click **Save**.

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The new category appears in the tree. The **Preview**, on the right of the window, shows the top of its online page.

::: info Manager role
Categories are managed with the **Manager** role. See [Team](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/staff.md).
:::

## Create a subcategory {#creer-une-sous-categorie}

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1. On the parent category's row, click **Add a sub-category**.
2. Enter the name, for example **Jams**, then click **Save**.

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The subcategory appears under its parent in the tree and on the parent's online page.

## Put products in a category {#ranger-des-produits}

A category is filled from the products' forms.

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1. Open **Store** > **Products**, then the product's form.
2. In **Product categorization**, choose its categories (8 at most).
3. Click **Save**.

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In the product list, **Filter** > **Categories** then shows only the products of one category. To sort many products at once, tick them on the [dashboard Products page](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/products.md#edit-products), then **More actions** > **Edit categories**.

## Change the order of categories {#reorganiser}

The order is set in the parent category. For the main categories, the parent is the catalog page, at the top of the tree.

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1. Click the parent category.
2. In the **Subcategories** block, drag the entries into the order you want.
3. Click **Save**.

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This order is the one used in the menu and the category lists of your online store.

## Move a category {#deplacer-une-categorie}

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1. Click the category.
2. In **Visibility**, choose another **Parent category**.
3. Click **Save**.

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Its subcategories move with it.

## Hide a category {#masquer-une-categorie}

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1. Click the category.
2. In **Visibility**, set the **Category status** to **Hidden**.
3. Click **Save**.

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The category disappears from the online store and its navigation, along with its subcategories, without being deleted. Set it back to **Visible** to put it online again. Hiding a category does not remove its products from the register: they stay in the sale grid.

## Edit the catalog page {#page-catalogue}

The first item in the tree, marked **Catalog page**, is the page of your online store that lists the main categories. It is called **Boutique** by default. Open it to change its title, description and image, or the order of the main categories. This page can be neither hidden nor deleted.

## Delete a category {#supprimer-une-categorie}

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1. Click the category.
2. Open the **More actions** menu (the three dots at the top of the window), then choose **Delete**.
3. Confirm the deletion.

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The category disappears from the register, the dashboard and the online store.

## Good to know

- **No aisles in the sale grid**: at the register, the **Sale** screen is browsed with search and scanning, not by category. Categories filter the product list of the **Store** section and target [coupons](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/coupons.md#produits-et-categories).
- **View page**, in the window's **More actions** menu, opens the category's online page, if your account has an online store and no change is in progress.
- The layout of online category pages is set on the [dashboard Themes page](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/branding.md). To sort your products by size or color, create [filters](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/facets.md).