Web Categories are the categories used on the website where the store is using it's own website. You create the Web Categories, then add the products to those web categories.
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If you haven't already created any Web Categories you can now start by creating the Parent Category and all of the child categories to go under that.
What is a Parent Category?
Answer: a parent category is the category to under which the sub-category or child category lives under.
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A child category or sub-category could then be Ballpoint Pens
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How the Web Categories are used - and how they are different from Product Categories and Price Categories.
- Price Categories are used for setting up product price levels with special pricing. They are not actual categories on products or on the web.
- Product Categories are used on the Category field on your actual products. They are a category usually provided by a head office or imported by you as a category you want your product under for reporting purposes and possibly also web purposes.