Category

API-Reference

Category is a common block used to support the catalog and any other type of hierarchy classification you can use.

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Listings (Listing Category)

Listing Categories in SuperAdmin

Listing categories is using the same category block used in ACCOUNTS to differentiate the content. As it’s a same block, whatever features available in account categories is available in listings categories.

Listing category supports 4 levels of hierarchies. This allows you to create a hierarchy of categories for your listings, such as:

• Men
• • Clothing
• • • Tops,
• • • Coats
• • • Beachwear,
• • • BridalWear
• • • Jeans
• • • • Skinny Leg

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Accounts

Account Categories in SuperAdmin

Account category also supports 4 levels of hierarchies. This allows you to create a hierarchy of categories for your accounts, such as:

• Level 1: Home Services
  • Level 2: Plumbing
    • Level 3: Drain Cleaning
      • Level 4: Clogged Sinks

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Advanced Use Cases

In cases where you have a superapp-based marketplace or ecosystem where you want to have different types of listings, you can use sub-type as another level.

For example: On top of listings, you can create:

• Extensions (for SaaS)
• Services (on top of existing listings as products)

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How to Create Categories?

1. SLUG: SLUG is custom URL for the category. Example: When we create ‘Men’ category, the default url is https://monoqlo.tradly.co/lc/MEN, but if you would like to change it to another name instead of men.
2. CATEGORY DESCRIPTION: When you add a category description, it will be display in the CATEGORY catalogue page, social media share, link share, etc
3. ORDER number: If you are planning to re-arrange the categories in the order (From Category list page as well, you can use DRAG functionality to arrange them)
4. MEDIA : You can use media to add icons, illustrations and other media to beautify the category representation.

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Multi Level Categories Creation

Let’s understand the category level through this image

1. Whenever you create a parent(1st level) category, you select the parent which is by default there.
2. When you create a second level, you can select for example MEN as PARENT. and then create “OUTER WEAR”
3. When you create a third level, then you can select “OUTERWEAR” and then create 3rd level “JACKET” here. Each ”->” is considered as a hierarchy level.

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Category Management

Once you create a category, you can edit them, it’s get an update to the existing data as a standard procedure.

1. ORDER: Re-earranging categories order 2: EDIT: You can edit the categories and changes are updated in realtime as you make
2. DELETE: When you delete a child category, all listings under that category will be moved to the parent category. You cannot delete a Parent category if it has listings associated with it. You need to move the listings first before deleting a parent category.
3. Add Child Category: Directly adding child categories from here instead of going to CATEGORY page.
4. View Listings: All items posted under that category would be visible here.Example use cases: Verify whether all the items posted are properly into the respective catagory catalogue.