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You can manually create new categories and subcategories for your products or bulk create categ

With a category or subcategory, you can:

• Associate properties to a category
• Associate properties to a subcategory
• Set default value for a property

Bulk create new categories and subcategories.

1. Navigate to the MANAGE tab and click on Categories.
2. Click on Create Categories.
3. In the Categories text box enter the categories that you want to create in this format :                                            category>child1,category>child2,category,                                                                                                                                                                            example: Bottle>Steel,Bottle>Plastic,Bottle>Copper,Bottle
   1. To add a subcategory under a category, hover over the desired category and click on icon to the right most corner.
   2. Enter a name for the subcategory or child category and click on Create Category. The subcategory will be created under the selected category.

Associating Properties to a category or subcategory

Once you create a category or subcategory, you can associate product properties with the category or subcategory. 

If you associate certain properties for a category, its subcategories or child categories will automatically inherit association with those properties.

To associate product properties 

1. Create a category or subcategory.
2. Click on the desired category.
3. From the Associate Properties list, select the properties you want to associate with the category or subcategory.
4. The added properties will be displayed, showing the property name, property data type, and options to set the default value or remove the property from the association.
5. If you want to set a default value for a property, click on the Set Default Value option in the respective property’s row and enter the desired default value.
6. Once you have selected the properties and set default values
7.  Click on Update to save the associations.