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I've just started using craft Commerce. What's the accepted way to categorise products? For example, i’m trying to replicate this structure:

  • Bags and Scarves (shows all products in this category)
    • Hand Bags (shows just hand bags)
    • Overnight Bags (shows just overnight)
    • Purses (shows just purses)
    • Scarfs (shows just scarfs)
  • Hair Accessories (shows all accessories)
    • Hair Bands (shows just hair bands)
    • Hair Clips (etc)
    • Brushes (etc)
    • Combs (etc)
  • Hair Care Products (shows all hair care ‘HERO’ products)
    • Product with variations
    • Product with variations
    • Product with variations
    • Product with variations
    • etc
    • etc
  • Jewellery (all jewellery, no sub cats)
  • Gift Vouchers
    • £10
    • £20

I can’t see how product types would work? I added the top level as if they were “departments” but the front end doesn’t show these?

Any help and code examples appreciated to get me going.

Thanks

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Product Types are really for the content of the fields and field layout of each product plus basic options for things like tax/shipping category defaults.

For full categorization in menus and site structure, we recommend putting a category field on all products.

For example you might have a category field names 'department' which you put all products into.

You then could show all products related to that category: https://craftcms.com/support/entries-related-to-category

Let me know if you need more guidance in the comments.

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  • Thanks Luke, with some experimenting and reading around I decided to try the categorisation option. At the moment i'm putting ALL bags and scarves into a Product Type called "Bags and Scarves" but the Variations are confusing because a bag and a scarf clearly don't have any similarities! :( I haven't got as far as templating yet.
    – Martin
    Oct 19, 2017 at 14:53
  • Just thought... I should create a 'Type' each for scarves and bags and use the categories to do the sorting. I'll stop thinking out loud now...
    – Martin
    Oct 19, 2017 at 14:57

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