"Catalog Setup - Add Departments and Categories" Category: Catalog Manage Help Details - Webs-a-gogo Online Training System (OTS)
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Help Details: Catalog Setup - Add Departments and Categories
Adding Departments and Categories for your Catalog is quick and easy. Remember that your Catalog is heirarchial. You must add Departments BEFORE you add Categories, and you must have a Department & Category before you can add a product. Find the Department Edit icon on your Control Panel and click it:
Enter a unique Department Name, A short Subtitle (optional) and a Long Description (optional) of the Department. If you have
NOTE: Although the short and long descriptions, and pictures are optional you should absolutely put information here since it will be used by Search Engines such as Google to help people find you. Your WAG-MOD website has special SEO characteristics that utilize this info just for that purpose. Plus, leaving these fields blank will look odd when visitors hit the page and find it void of information describing your product line. a picture related to the Department, upload it using the Picture File Upload function.
Scroll back to the top of the page and click the Add It button.
Now you want to add a Category. From your Control Center click on the Category Edit icon.
Enter the unique CategoryName. Next use the Department Dropdown (red arrow) to select which Department the Category belongs to. The enter a short Subtitle (optional) and a Long Description (optional) of the Department. If you have a picture related to the Department, upload it using the Picture File Upload function.
NOTE: Although the short and long descriptions, and pictures are optional you should absolutely put information here since it will be used by Search Engines such as Google to help people find you. Your WAG-MOD website has special SEO characteristics that utilize this info just for that purpose. Plus, leaving these fields blank will look odd when visitors hit the page and find it void of information describing your product line.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Add It button. You now have a Category connected to a Department and are ready to proceed to the next step, Adding an Item to your Catalog.