Categories are a very important setup process when starting your marketplace. They have your sellers list their items in a way to enable customers to better find what they are looking for.

While the administration site for your marketplace includes a graphical interface for managing categories, we also allow you to import a pre-defined category structure if you have one.

To import your categories, your file must follow a few simple rules:

1. The depth of categories must be 3 or less

2. The file must be a CSV of the format defined below

3. Root level categories have an empty or 0 value for parent_id

CSV File Format: id, parent_id, name, url_name

Example of category import file:

Id,ParentId,Name,UrlName
1,0,Books,books
2,1,“Art, Architecture & Photography”,art-architecture-photography
3,1,Audiobooks,audiobooks
4,1,Biography,biography
5,1,Books for University,books-for-university
6,1,“Business, Finance & Law”,business-finance-law
7,1,Children’s Books,childrens-books
8,1,Computing & Internet,computing-internet
9,1,Fiction,fiction
10,0,“Clothes, Shoes & Jewellery”,clothes-shoes-jewellery
11,10,Clothing,clothing
12,10,Shoes,shoes
13,10,Jewellery,jewellery
14,10,Watches,watches
15,10,Handbags & Shoulder Bags,handbags-shoulder-bags
16,0,Electronics & Computers,electronics-computers
17,16,Camera & Photo,camera-photo
18,16,TV & Home Cinema,tv-home-cinema
19,16,Audio & HiFi,audio-hifi
20,16,Phones,phones
21,16,Laptops,laptops
22,16,Tablets,tablets
23,16,Monitors,monitors
24,0,Food & Drink,food-drink