How to create and edit product categories.
Product Categories
Product categories are used to categorize your items into groups and sub-groups, and are required for sales reporting, batch price changes, and searches. These categories can then be assigned to the individual items in your inventory. Using categories offers more specific, in-depth results in your reports. For example, with a year of sales you'd see how well products categorized as “Men's shoes” are selling. If you have a LightSpeed Cloud Web Store account, the product categories are also used for classification on your web store.
Important: If you import products into LightSpeed Cloud from a pre-existing database that includes category information, the categories are automatically added to your LightSpeed Cloud system.
- 1. Click Settings from the Main Menu, and then click Categories.
- To edit or add to an existing category branch, click the corresponding category from the list, or click+ New Category to add a new category branch.
- Enter/edit the Category Name, and then click Save.
- Select the Parent category path.
- Note: You can change the category path for any of the current category branches by selecting a different path at any time. When doing so, the structure of the branch that you’re moving is maintained. For example, if you have a branch such as Women > Clothing > Dresses, moving the “Clothing” branch will also move its “Dresses” sub-category.
- If you want to add a sub-category, enter the sub-category Name under Add Sub Category, and then click + Add Sub Category. If you want to expand on the already created sub-categories, click the pencil icon next to the sub-category.
- Click Save.
