--- title: "Categories: organize your product catalog" description: "Structure your catalog into hierarchical categories and subcategories, reorder the tree and help customers navigate your store with ease." url: https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/collections --- # Categories Use **Categories** to group the [products](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/products.md) in your catalog. A category can contain smaller groups called subcategories, such as **Clothing → T-shirts**. Here you can create those groups, change their names or images, change their order, or disable a category you no longer need. Expand the list to see categories and the subcategories inside them. Each entry, called a node, represents one category. Click its name to edit its settings, or **Add a sub-category** to create a group inside it. The first node of the tree stands for the page listing your categories on the store (named **Boutique** by default). Opening it lets you edit the title, description and image of that page; your root categories appear as its subcategories. This node cannot be disabled or deleted. The dashboard is shown in French, with English captions. ::: details Read the video steps 1. — In Categories, click “Create a category”. 2. — Name your category. 3. — Describe the pieces in this category. 4. — Add an image of the collection. 5. — Upload a photo of your ceramics. 6. — Confirm the collection photo. 7. — The photo is applied to the category. 8. — The category stays active under Idées créatives. 9. — Click “Save”. 10. — The category is visible with its photo. ::: ## Create a category Click **Create a category** to add a new category at the root. To create a subcategory attached to an existing parent, use **Add a sub-category** directly on the relevant row. ## Reorder The display order on your store is set by drag and drop: open the parent category and reorder its children in the **Subcategories** block. For root categories, go through the first node of the tree. This order determines how visitors discover your catalog in the menu and category lists. ## Category settings Clicking on a category opens the edit form (titled **Category** for a root category, **Subcategory** for a nested one). The **View page** button opens the matching public page in a new tab, handy for quickly checking how it looks for visitors. ### Content The **Category name** is used as the page title and in the URL. The **Category description** introduces the category to your visitors; give it some care since it's also used for the SEO of the page. ### Image Add an image to illustrate the page and make it more attractive in menus and lists. ### Settings The **Category status** block lets you toggle the category between active and disabled. A disabled category no longer appears on your store or in navigation, without being deleted. The **Parent category** field lets you attach the category under another existing one, useful for moving a category around the hierarchy without recreating it. ### Subcategories When the category has child categories, they are listed here. Drag and drop subcategories to change the order they appear in on the store.