Product Categories

Organize your products and bloggers into distinct categories, it's a great help if your store has diverse product lines (e.g., male/female products, accessories).

Create a category

Store owners, co-owners and managers can create product categories:

1. With your store selected, click on Settings → Product Categories

2. Click Edit to enter edit mode

3. Click Add a category button

4. Enter a category name (e.g., "Male", "Female", "Accessories")

5. Click Create

Assigning Categories to Products

Individual Product Assignment:

1. Navigate to Products

2. Create a new product or edit an existing one

3. In the product form, select one or more categories

4. Save the product

Batch Category Assignment:

1. Navigate to Products

2. Select multiple products using checkboxes

3. Click Assign Categories to Batch button

4. Select the categories to assign

5. Confirm the assignment

If you don't see any category to assign to your products, make sure you created one in the settings before.

Assigning categories to bloggers

There are three ways to assign categories to bloggers:

A. During Application Process: When bloggers apply to join your store:

• If your store has product categories, bloggers applying will see a category selection step

• Bloggers can select which categories they want to blog for

• If you have only 1 category, it's automatically assigned

• If you have 2+ categories, applicants must select at least one

B. Individual Blogger Assignment:

1. Navigate to Members

2. Click on the "+ Categories" button

3. Select/deselect categories in the dialog

4. Save changes

C. Batch Blogger Assignment:

1. Navigate to Members

2. Click Assign bloggers to category button (top right)

3. Select the bloggers you want to assign

4. Select the category

5. Confirm the assignment

Using the batch blogger assignment will replace all categories assigned to the selected bloggers.

How Bloggers See Products

Once categories are assigned:

• Bloggers with assigned categories: Can only see and request products that:

  • Have at least one category in common with their assigned categories, OR

  • Have no categories assigned (uncategorized products are visible to all)

• Example Scenario:

  • Store has categories: "Male" and "Female"

  • Blogger A is assigned to "Male" category

  • Blogger B is assigned to "Female" category

  • Product 1 is tagged with "Male" → Only Blogger A can see it

  • Product 2 is tagged with "Female" → Only Blogger B can see it

  • Product 3 is tagged with both "Male" and "Female" → Both bloggers can see it

  • Product 4 has no categories → Both bloggers can see it