Re: Can you assign an item to multiple categories?
Posted
06-23-2016
An item can only be assigned to one category at a time. Would you mind sharing more about why you would want an item in two categories? What type of items do you have? I'd love to better understand your request! Thanks!
I'd also like this feature for a little different reason. We're a bar and mixed drinks with all the various options create a very deep structure. The way the bartender likes it setup with liquor type as the category, which also works well for how we need things structured to make pricing for variants and modifications work. However, the average person we have that might wait on customers doesn't always know that a Rob Roy is made with scotch. So they are forced into the search box to find it.
Ideally, I would like to cross-category any drink with multiple options for my end-user be it a bartender, server or cashier. Something like 'Cocktails' would also have most of the 'Vodka' mixed drink options. So no need to know a Cosmo is made with vodka to find it from the main tab. I've toyed with making tabs work as that next level up, but it quickly clutters up the UI.
Another thing that happens with stacking things so deeply is variants become repetitive. For example:
Vodka (Cat)
Martini (Item)
Variants
Smirnoff
Stolichnaya
Titos
Grey Goose
Martini Mods
Dry
Olive
Stuffed Olives
Lemon Twist
Perfect
So every kind of vodka drink ends up having the same variant names, but not necessarily the same price because of the amount used for any given drink. It's pretty hard to build the type of vodka as a modification because I need it to work like the variants do, but it'd be nice to have a way to reuse variant names and perhaps even have a default price that one can override per Item. Something that helps build things out faster and make adding a new variant to the mix not take a change for every single type of drink one can make with Vodka.
I want to put an item into multiple categories. e.g. I have bath bombs in different scents, I want the calming scented bath bomb to show up in both calming scented products and bath bomb products.
So far I havent figured out how to do this, and it's very frustrating!
Thank you so much for sharing your specific business need @bgallaher
This will be a good read for our Items team, as I'm sure they'll be interested in this.
One workaround that might work for you is creating a separate item set for your servers? Maybe creating a specific category that lists out the actual item drinks that only your servers use.
I know that's not ideal, so hopefully we can get something implemented that helps with this in the near future.
Being able to put an item into multiple categories is a feature request that we're already tracking. I went ahead and merged your thread with this one, so we can track all the feedback in one place!
Yes, for now I have a page/tab for cocktails as items set up on the POSs. That works for the servers but doesn't help the bookkeeping side. It's quite a process right now when we add or subtract a brand of any liquor.
We would also like the ability to use multiple categories with our items. We sell books and would like to categorize them by language and by author. Please add me to the list of your customers requesting this enhancement!
I would also like to have the ability to display items in multiple categories. I sell hand spun and hand dyed items. Each item has its own SKU I want to make it easy for clients to navigate my website. I have a category yarns, which all the yarns fit. They are made from different fibres so I have a category - cotton yarns, also a category - Naturally dyed yarns, some of the naturallly dyed yarns are also cotton, some are wool. If I use variants in a category, the details of the items get lost, If I list in only one category, the client misses the items. The ability to sub categorise or list in multiple categories would be a fabulous solution.
