Internal Categories

Interal Categories in the data pool are used to assign product data to (internal) categories and their item specifics on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon. They can be edited, imported and exported. All product specifics should always be first assigned here.

Mapping

Assignments of products to internal categories can be made as follows:

1. during the import of product data
2. under Data Pool -> Products -> Tab "Category" via the category selection, or
3. direkt über die Schaltfläche [ Kategorien übernehmen/abgleichen ]

Attention!
We generally recommend assigning all products to internal categories. This works best during the import of product data.

Are there no categories included in an import file, assigns our system category IDs of its own. The assignment of data to the categories of your CSV or XML interface (to categories of your shop) takes place later, via these internal categories, in the "Interface Export Settings" section.

Lists

After setting up the internal categories will the number of products which are stored in each category be displayed here. In addition, you can see whether you have already made assignments to marketplace categories on eBay or Amazon. By clicking on the appropriate country code, new assignements and item specifics can be set up or already existing ones edited.

To edit an internal category, click on the category name. A new page opens, on which properties and assignments of the category (e.g. forAmazon and eBay) can be edited.

Detail Page

To edit the properties of a single category, click on the name of this Category.

Settings

Here you can see the field contents for Category-ID, Parent-ID, Master Data. If you have enabled additional languages, these are also displayed here.

Amazon

Assign the internal category to a matching Amazon category and get the appropriate item attributes directly from Amazon.

Voraussetzungen für die gebündelte Übernahme von Artikelmerkmalen in Kategorien:

Um Artikelmerkmale einer bestimmten Kategorie gebündelt auch für andere Kategorien zu übernehmen, müssen in den betreffenden internen Kategorien Kategoriezuweisungen zum jeweiligen Marktplatz eingetragen sein. Enthalten interne Kategorien keine Marktplatzuweisungen, können für solche Kategorien keine Artikelmerkmale übernommen werden. Vorhandene Marktplatzzuweisungen erkennen Sie am Länderkürzel in der Liste der Internen Kategorien (z.B. US, UK, DE).

Länderkürzel rot: Marktplatz-ID zugewiesen

Länderkürzel schwarz: Marktplatz-ID und Artikelmerkmale zugewiesen

Buttons

• [ Item Specifics ]

Country-specific product characteristics can be assigned for all items in this category.

• [ Amazon save ]

Save all Amazon settings

• [ Delete ]

Delete this category

eBay

• eBay Kategorien

Ordnen Sie der internen Kategorie eine passende eBay Kategorie (ID) zu. Die ID-Nummer finden Sie im Link auf der Übersichtsseite der eBay Kategorien. Übernehmen Sie danach die passenden Artikelmerkmale direkt von eBay. Falls Sie die eBay Kategorie später mal ändern, dann müssen Sie auch die Artikelmerkmale anpassen und neu speichern, da diese unterschiedlich Werte haben können.

Best to enter here the ID of your "eBay Store Category". Names in general can indeed also be used, but errors may occur during input. Example: "Chains / Bracelets" is not the same on eBay as "Chains / Bracelets".

The "2. eBay Store Category can be another independent category of your eBay store, where an item could be listed. Example: An earring can be "created/saved" in category1 (women) and it then can also be displayed in category2 (girls).

Attention!
Each value entered must always point to the last (leaf) category level, where your products are classified on eBay. Main and secondary categories are not related to parent/child relations!

Voraussetzungen für die gebündelte Übernahme von Artikelmerkmalen in Kategorien:

Um Artikelmerkmale einer bestimmten Kategorie gebündelt auch für andere Kategorien zu übernehmen, müssen in den betreffenden internen Kategorien Kategoriezuweisungen zum jeweiligen Marktplatz eingetragen sein. Enthalten interne Kategorien keine Marktplatzuweisungen, können für solche Kategorien keine Artikelmerkmale übernommen werden. Vorhandene Marktplatzzuweisungen erkennen Sie am Länderkürzel in der Liste der Internen Kategorien (z.B. US, UK, DE).

Länderkürzel rot: Marktplatz-ID zugewiesen

Länderkürzel schwarz: Marktplatz-ID und Artikelmerkmale zugewiesen

Buttons

• [ Item Specifics ]

Apply item specifics to all products of this category

• [ Save eBay ]

Save category assignments for eBay

• [ Delete ]

Delete this category

Buttons

• [ Add New Category ]

Add a new category

• [ Syncronize Product Category ]

Contains your data product categories, can these be adopted or adjusted as internal categories.

Categories are not automatically adopted as internal categories when importing products. This setting can be changed though in the import template.

• [ Create Backup ]

Create a backup of your internal categories. Backups can be imported again later via the Datenimport.

• [ Delete ALL Internal Categories ... ]

After an additional confirmation prompt, all internal categories are deleted.

Before you delete one or all categories in the data pool, you should save them via the [Create Backup] button! After deletion, you can create and assign your internal categories anew through a re-import. Incidentally, no products will be removed when you delete internal categories, only the assigned internal categories.

• [ Delete ]

same as above, only for a single category