How can a category be added to Shopify?

Customers typically really enjoy visiting a specific product's page on Shopify stores while browsing by clicking on a product image on the collection page. By adding links to the collections in a menu in your store's navigation, you can actually make it easier for customers to find and view many categories. From the collections page of your Shopify admin, you have full access to view, add, and edit collections or categories.
Hence, in this time article, I will give you a clear view here for the instructions on adding a category in your Shopify store

What is a category?

The highest class for most objects to be grouped according to similarity or predetermined criteria is typically known as a category.

A category is also known as a collection on Shopify. More specifically, collections of products are frequently created in order to help customers find the products they want. Category is the name of that collection of groups. For instance, the collections of clothing for men, women, or children can be included in a category. It might be products of a specific kind, like cosmetics or housing, or it might be discounted or seasonal goods.

How to add category in Shopify

This section will provide you with the step-by-step instructions you need to add a new category to your Shopify store.

Adding a new category

Step 1. Log in Shopify account

Of course, first of all, you need to log into your Shopify account to start getting all your work done.

Step 2. Open Collections section

After that, direct yourself to the Collections section, and then opt for the Add a Collection option

Step 3. Fill in Collection details

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From here, just fill in the Collection details that you want your collection to have. Here are several things that you need to know while filling:

Define the Title for your new collection.
Enter its Description.
If you want to add an image to the collection, just click on the Choose Image button, which locates under the Featured Image field. You will see it on the left side of the screen and then just select the image from your computer.

Step 4. Fill in Conditions section

Next, scroll down to the Conditions section of your new collection to continue the procedure. From here, you are able to opt for either Manually select products or Automatically select products based on conditions option.

If you choose to add products to collection manually, follow the tutorials below:

Click the Manually select products option.
Now, you need to proceed to fill all your blank sections of your new collection, which can be Search Engines, Visibility sections and many more.

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When you are done with filling, just click on the Save Collection button.
There will be the Products section provided on the left, so find the Add Products section and then choose the products that you would like your New Collection to have.

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Finally, just simply click Save at the bottom right of the screen.

If you choose to add products to collection automatically, follow the tutorials below:

For starters, opt for the ‘Automatically select products based on conditions’ option.
Then, choose the condition that you saw on the list, like Product Title, Product Type, Product Vendor, and so on. After that, you need to fill in the blank field of each corresponding section of each product that you want your new collection to have.
If you would like to add more than one product to your collection, just click on the Add another Condition button.

add a category in shopify

Next, you need to proceed to fill all your blank sections of your new collection, which can be Search Engines, Visibility sections and many more.
After when all things are done, click Save Collection.

Step 5. Fill in Search Engines fields

From the Page title, Meta description and URL and Handle boxes, you will see that they have already contained some information. These have been automatically generated based on the entries that you created in the Collection details section earlier. From here, you can change the Page title and Meta description details. However, remember not to make any changes to the URL and handle field.

Step 6. Choose options in Visibility section

Now, you are capable of setting the new collection to Visible or Hidden on your store. Also, you can even set a specific to publish date for your online collections in case you want your collection to be displayed on your website some days in the future.

Step 7. Click Save Collection

Finally, click Save Collection

To add a new category on iPhone

Step 1: Open Collections section

Open your logged-in Shopify app, and then tap in the Products section and choose for Collections.

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Step 2: Tap + button {#step-2}

Look at the right corner of the screen, and then tap the + button.

Step 3: Enter title and description for collection

add a category in shopify

Step 4: Upload image for collection

This step is optional, as you can tap at the image icon on the screen to upload an image that will represent your collection.

Step 5: Disable Automatically select products option

add a category in shopify

Step 6: Customize visible sales channels

This step is also optional, as you can tap the Sales channels option to customize which sales channels the collection will be visible to.

The new collection will be available to all of your sales channels by default. You can cancel the selection of any channels that you want to hide the collection from.

Step 7: Select displayed order

This is an optional step, you can tap Sorting on the screen to select the order to be displayed on the collection's products have an online store.

Step 8: Add product

In the Products section, it's your job to add the products that you want to have in the collection.

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Step 9: Tap Save

Tap on the Save button to save all your changes

Step 10: Add link to your collection

Now, remember to add a link to the category of your online store navigation to help customers find and view the collection.