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Shopping Item Categories

Shopping Item Categories

This article will show you how to create meaningful categories to organise your shopping lists:

Here are some examples of Item Categories:

  • Books: textbooks, setwork books, workbooks or study guides.

  • Clothing: school ties, caps, tracksuits.

  • Food: fresh foods such as pizzas and hamburgers, fruit, yogurt or crisps, cooldrinks and bottled water.

  • Concert tickets: Adult tickets R50 and Children’s tickets R20.

List Categories

This is the default landing page for listing and managing Item Categories.

[Back to Shop] is a shortcut to switch back to the Shop Overview

Adding an Item Category

  1. Click [+ New Category].

  2. Give your category a name and a description. Click [Submit].

You can’t create Shopping Items without first creating Item Categories.

Editing Categories

  1. Click on the category you want to edit.

  2. Click [📝 Edit] to edit the category

Removing Categories

  1. Click on the category you want to delete.

  2. Click [✖ Delete] to remove the category.

  3. Confirm the deletion.

You can’t delete categories that are in use. First delete those items or change their category.

Requires canViewItems and canEditItems permissions.

This is part of the Shop Tutorial

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