Example Category Structure

Categories are used for grouping and classifying products and ingredients in Solteq Commerce Cloud. All products and ingredients belong to a least one category, and can also belong to several categories at once. In addition, every category itself belongs to a category type. 

Below is an example product hierarchy where products are designated with

• A main product group (category type), which contains categories (for example: Beverages, Food, Services.)

  • A more detailed category type, which contains categories (for example: Alcoholic Beverages and Non-Alcoholic Beverages.)

    • An even more detailed category type, which contains categories (for example: Beer, Cider…)

• Supplier (category type), which contains categories (for example: Supplier A, Supplier B, Supplier C…)

If a product has a category from even more detailed category type, this does not automatically mean that the product has a category from more detailed category type.

In addition, if a product has a category from the main product group category type, this does not indicate that the product automatically has a category from more detailed category type or even more detailed category type; you can create the product hierarchy according to the specific demands of your organization.

When you create product categories manually in the Back Office, the system automatically generates the category ID inside the category type, starting from value 1.

The following figure depicts the example product hierarchy above. First you select a category type, from which you can then select a specific category for the product.