Already familiar with creating categories? Jump ahead to Step 3 - Configuring Your Products.

Categorizing your goods and services is a prerequisite to setting up your products. This is internal and only useful for our Reporting & Analytics.

While it's highly encouraged to take the extra time to categorize your products. If this level of granularity isn't of importance, create a 'catch-all' category that your products will nest into.

Below is a quick 1:45 video with a summary of everything discussed below.

To begin, navigate to Products > Categories.

Following, click Actions > Add Category.
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Here we'll be prompted to provide a name and a description for our category. Let's say we're an apparel shop. Some of my categories may consist of;

Provide a unique description of this category. Generally, unless you have a very large number of categories, it's recommended to simply copy and paste the name in this field. It's internal and will not be visible to your customers.

And that's it! Now you can dive into setting up products. Step #3 - Configuring Your Products.

sticky.io has a large assortment of reporting across all channels of your business. All reports include a 'filters' section and many include the ability to segment by Category.

Below is Order Analysis, it showcases important measures in your business and should be something that you monitor daily.

We've spent enough time on Categories, let's take a dive into the more exciting parts of setting up your sticky.io account, your products! Step #3 - Configuring Your Products.
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