1. From the Construction Tools tab, click EZ-Catalog
2. Click Maintain Categories
3. Click Add Category at the top
4. Give the category a Name
5. (Optional) Change the category ID as desired, add a description and/or change other settings.
Name: This is the name that will appear in the navigation and as a title on category pages.
CategoryID: This will be used in the link address, so it is important that it is unique. Do not use spaces. The Category ID is limited to 10 characters long.
Parent Category: Allows you to make this a sub-category of the selected
parent category. Categories that already contain products are not available to
select as parent categories.
Hide this category in category listings: This keeps the category hidden. It will not appear in the catalog navigation. Hiding categories can be helpful if you want to work on a category but are not ready to show it to public. You can still make direct links to a hidden category.
You can also use this to apply volume discount options to products based on
different groupings than you use for display.
Header HTML: This allows you to use an html page as a custom header for your category.
Footer HTML: Use a page as the footer of your category page.
Order button: Replace the default Order Button with a custom graphic. Does not apply to modern catalog layouts.
Back button: Replace the default back button with a custom graphic. Does not apply to modern catalog layouts.
Volume Discount Options:
You can apply bulk discounts to specific items in your catalog. By
default, bulk discounts are be applied when a customer buys multiples of
a single item. However, you can change the default behavior at a
category level. The options are as follows.
- Category
- Buy multiple items within a category to trigger a bulk discount. This
is great when your discount applies to say.. everything in your Sporting Goods or Hats category.
- Product (default) - Buy multiples of a single item to get the discount (even if the product is added to the cart multiple times, and various options).
- Line Item - This is useful when separate line items should not combine toward a bulk discount. For example, if a single product came in different colors and someone bought 1 of each color, no bulk discount would be applied because they would all be separate line items.
