Organize Your Catalog

This chapter covers Organize Your Catalog. The pages are listed in the order you'd usually need them: how it works first, then the tasks, then the reference pages.

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The model behind brands, the category hierarchy, attributes and attribute groups — how they attach to products, where they live, and how they feed pricing, listings, and reporting	How product taxonomy works
Use the product Taxonomy tab to assign and remove categories, set the primary category with the tree browser, and add, edit or remove attribute values and attribute groups on a single product	Set a product's categories & attributes
Create, rename, archive, restore, delete, bulk-manage, and import/export product brands in Settings — including why delete is blocked when a brand is still in use	Manage brands
Build and maintain the product category tree — create under a parent, rename or re-parent, delete leaf categories, archive or restore a whole subtree, reassign products, attach attribute groups, and bulk or import/export categories	Manage categories
Create, edit, re-sync, archive, restore, delete, bulk-manage, and import or export product attributes in Settings — including the guards that block deleting an attribute that's still in use	Manage attributes
Create attribute groups and attach attributes, re-sync membership under the one-group-per-attribute rule, order groups and their attributes, archive or restore, delete (blocked when in use), and run bulk and import operations	Manage attribute groups
Create, edit, archive, merge, and force-delete cost categories, manage keyword aliases for landed-cost auto-categorization, and understand system (protected) categories and usage counts	Manage cost categories
Lookup for attribute data types, option lists, validation and display settings, numeric precision formatting, the grouped listing, the template flag, and what blocks a delete	Attribute fields & types reference