Category Settings

default categories by default, aiq ecommerce uses default standard product categories by industry you can delete these defauts and/or make changes category settings category name this is the name that will display on your menu keep it short and sweet note for multi store organizations since categories are completely customizable and per store, if you want a system category to only display once when viewing organizational level settings (offers, analytics), use the exact same name across stores e g "beer" should be consistent across all stores (case sensitive), if you use "beer", or "beers", these will show separately category slug this is the path that will be in your store's url for example, if you created a category called "coffee", the default slug would be coffee , and your url for this category would be domain com/menu/categories/coffee you can change your slug to be different from the category name if desired category short description optional this is intended to show a short description on the home page and at the top of the category pages category long description optional this is intended to show a more detailed description of the categroy this also includes an update that allows you to use our rich text editor to customize the content in this section currectly supported is paragraph, bold, h2, h3, h4 and links this long description will be inserted at the bottom of your category pages system categories you have the ability to toggle a category as system or non system system categories are your categories that are always present on your menu (e g a beverage store would have system categories of beer, wine, liquor, etc ) these will show in any “categories” filters throughout the app and in your menu they also will show in your analytics breakdown by category non system categories are good for use cases such as you are running a deal promoting an in house or co marketed brand showcasing new products pos mapping pos mapping only shows for system categories, see pos custom mappings docid\ th cgdbzoynx 4at0etyg compliance for certain industries, a compliance dropdown will be available for system categories make sure you are appropriately mapping your category to the relevant compliance category these enfore purchase limits on your menu default product quantity threshold quantity thresholds on products allow you to hide products when they hit a certain quantity; this can help alleviate issues with overselling here you can set a default at the category level see product quantity threshold docid\ sefql0feggf2u4qxglzub show as icon on home page enable/disable a category from your home screen, in the example below i could toggle on/off "offers", "coffee", etc show in list on home page by default every category you create will show on your home page in the list view data has shown that customers don't typically scroll past the first or second category, so there's no need to have a ton thus, we recommend limiting the number of categories you show here, which can also vastly improve your menu's performance (speed) icon see custom icons docid\ rgeyuoio3z3dsi5ogfzik default product image this will be the default image for all missing product images in this category we recommend an image size of 500 x 750 pixels menu image add a category hero image navigate to menu > categories click on a category (either hardcoded or custom) click on the button for menu image 'add image' upload your image we recommend about 1200 x 600 in size, or a 2 1 ratio save click the 'view store' link to preview your image on the menu it will resize automatically for different breakpoints adding products to a category there are 3 ways to add products to a category via the data that's coming from your pos, see pos settings docid 3o0bfrfebfhrbfibx7njp manually adding by using a filter (see below) manually adding specific products one by one (see below) add products via filter to filter by one of aiq ecommerce's preset filters, select " filter by brand, category, discounts etc " then select one of the preset filters examples category name = 'lifestyle topicals' with the filters category = topicals, brand = lifestyle product sort within a filtered category select how you would like to sort your filtered items alphabetically, top sellers, top rated pinning products within a filtered category you also have the option of pinning items to be featured at the beginning of your custom category see pinning products add products one by one to create a fully customized category with specific products only, select " filter by specific menu products" select add products search for the products you would like to add select the + button on each product you want included (optional) you can further customize this by dragging these items into a specific order