Overview
Categories in Lister connect to your Builder Templates and ensure your listings are published to the matching categories in eBay and Shopgoodwill. For example, Lister's “Antiques” category auto-picks the right category for Shopgoodwill and eBay.
Lister comes with over 500 mapped categories for your products. This guide shows how to add, configure, and set up additional categories to your Lister account.
Note: Selling on Shopify? Shopify categories do not need mapping to Lister. Configure Shopify using Shopify collections.
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How Categories and Templates Interact
Each product category connects to ONE builder template. A template can link to multiple categories, but an individual category can only be used with one template.
If many templates tie to a single category, only the most recently edited template will be used to create a listing for that category.
In the example below, a builder template for guitars is connected to the Basses, Acoustic, and Electric guitar categories in Shopgoodwill and eBay.
How to Find Category Settings in Lister
Category settings are in the admin section of Lister. Only admins and custom roles with access to category settings can view and edit these settings.
Click the gear icon in the top right navigation menu of Lister to go to the admin page
Click “Categories” under the “Products and Listings” section in the left menu
Category names are nested into subcategories. To expand or contract the category tree, click the up/down arrow box at the top of the page, or the plus sign next to a specific category tree
How to Add a New Category
Add a new category by clicking the "New Category" button in the top right corner
Scroll down to the bottom of your list and type in the new category you'd like to add, and hit enter on your keyboard
Alternatively, add sub-categories by clicking on the plus sign next to the category you'd like to add a sub-category to, then enter the name of the new sub-category
Click the green “Save” button in the top right corner
Note: Once the category is saved, you’ll need to map it to your online marketplaces. Continue reading below for more details!
How to Map Categories to Marketplaces
After the Lister category has been created, it needs to be mapped to each marketplace you want to sell that category on.
Click the gear icon next to the name of the category
Click. "Change" under the marketplace you want to map the category to
Select the desired category from the marketplace category tree
Toggle the “Listable” button to activate the category in Lister
Click the green “Save” button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up window
💡 Operational Tip: Always map eBay categories as deep as possible into the eBay category tree. eBay categories must be mapped to the last category in the branch to list. The category tree box will be outlined in red when the selected category is not deep enough into eBay’s categories and will turn green once the selected category is at the end of the category branch.
If the eBay category is not at the end of the branch, you will see an error when creating eBay listings until a more specific category is selected:
How to Rearrange Categories
Click the plus sign on the left of a category to see a drop-down list of its subcategories
Rearrange products by clicking and holding down the gray box with three lines and moving it to the desired category tree
How to Delete Categories
Click on the trash icon next to the category you want to delete
A pop-up will warn you if the category is tied to any templates or listing strategies. You will need to remove the category from any templates and listing strategies before you delete the category
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