Builder brands: Adding store categories

When adding products to your store, you may come across the need to organize your products into Folders or Categories. Doing so helps to make it easier for website visitors to find what they're looking for and helps them become familiar customers.

In this article, we will cover the steps for activating and adding products to Categories. For the steps on adding products, check out: Builder brands: Managing products.

Enabling categories

With Builder brands, you can quickly activate product categories to organize the navigation of your store by following these steps:

1. Log in to your account via https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
2. Click Websites from the left navigation menu.
   
    
   Note: Alternatively, if you have multiple website builder accounts, click Launch to proceed.
3. Navigate and click the Manage Store tile.
   
   
    
4. Go to Advanced Features.
   
   
    
5. Toggle the switch control for Product Categories. This toggle will enable the functionality of categories within the products screen.
   
   

Creating categories

1. Navigate to Products from the left menu to proceed.
   
   
    
2. Select the Add A Category.
   
   
    
3. A window will appear that will let you name your category, along with some helpful tips.
   
   
    
4. Once you’ve given the category a name, click Continue to create your category.
   
   

Once a category is created, you will then see a category list on the right side of your screen. There are two default categories, All Products and Uncategorized, which were automatically added to your store.

Adding products to categories

1. Select the handlebar to drag the product from the middle menu into the list of Categories screen.
   
   
    
2. Drop the Product directly into the Category that you would like the product to appear below.
   
   
    
3. That's it! Once completed, you will see the Category Number count rise, indicating your product was added successfully.