Categories

Categories are the primary way to organize your products in Tuplo. Once you establish them, you can assign categories to product groups, making it easier for customers to find what they want on your website with just a few clicks.

Categories provide a broad description of your products. Examples include clothing, camping supplies, and car parts. They are structured hierarchically, allowing for unlimited nesting to offer maximum flexibility. However, it's best to keep the structure simple.

Create New

To add a category:

• Choose More Options > New Group

• Enter a title.

• Press Return.

Once created, you can add categories by following these steps.

1. Select the desired category.

2. Choose More Options > New Category.

3. Enter a title.

4. Press Return.

Delete

To delete a category:

1. Select the category.

2. Click the Remove button.

3. Click OK.

Manage

To rearrange categories:

• Click and drag them within the window.

To change the name of a category:

1. Select the desired category and do one of the following:

   1. Press Return.

   2. Click the category.

2. Enter the desired name.

3. Press Return.

Save Changes

Any changes you make are unsaved when working in the Assets Window until you click the Save button.

If you're unsure about your changes and wish to discard them, clicking the Revert button will return the window to the previous save state.

Keywords

Keywords are unique descriptions that further detail categories and product groups. As additional terms available to assign to categories, they make products associated with them more visible in searches on your website.

By default, products in Tuplo Studio are automatically indexed and searchable on your website so customers can easily find them. These indexes include the product brand, title, category, color, and size. To illustrate, consider a running shoe product with the following characteristics:

• Brand: Alta Athletics

• Title: Swift Runner

• Category: Footwear / Athletic Shoes / Running Shoes

• Colors: Red, Blue, White

• Sizes: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

The index for these shoes includes all provided words, ensuring the Alta Swift Runner appears in search results for 'running shoes' on your website. However, if the user searches for "jogging sneaker" instead, the Alta Swift Runner will not appear in the results.

Keywords help by adding the words "jogging' and "sneaker" to the Running Shoes category. Now, Alta Swift Runner and any other product groups assigned to this category will show in searches for "jogging sneaker."

Inherited Keywords

Since categories support folder nesting, you can take it one step further when optimizing keywords. By assigning a keyword to a category containing multiple categories, that keyword applies to all of them as an Inherited Keyword.

So, you could apply the keyword "sneaker" to the Athletic Shoes category, which would assign the keyword to every category inside.

Assign to a Category

To assign keywords:

1. Select a category.

2. Select the Keywords tab.

3. Click on the text input.

4. Type the keyword.

5. Press Return.

Remove a Keyword

Keywords assigned directly to a category can be deleted from within them, while you'll need to delete inherited keywords from the parent folders.

To delete a keyword:

1. Select a category.

2. Click the desired keyword.

3. Press Delete.

Attributes

Categories include the ability to assign attributes and further define associated product groups.

Since you need to create the attributes before you can assign them, check the following section on attributes for steps to create and assign them to categories.

Tax Status

You can apply tax information to a category and any nested categories within. There are several options depending on what services you have integrated with your Tuplo account.

Tuplo Basic

Avalara Tax Services

When using Tuplo Basic, categories receive a mark to designate them as taxable. Taxable status is a checkmark that can be activated when editing the category.

To do this:

1. Open the categories asset window.

2. Click the columns icon.

3. Activate the Tax Codes checkbox.

4. Either:

   1. Right-click a category and choose Switch Taxability.

   2. Select a category and use the keyboard shortcut Option + Command + T.

5. Click save to apply changes.

Quick Tips!

When using Tuplo Basic, all categories will default to taxable.

When using Avalara, your options are much more granular, and you can assign tax codes to specify the category's tax status.

To identify the tax code you'd like to apply, use the keyboard shortcut Option + Command + 6 to open the tax code window.

Then, to apply tax codes to a category:

1. Open the Categories Assets window.

2. Click the columns icon.

3. Activate the Tax Code checkbox.

4. Select a category.

5. Click the now visible tax code field.

6. Copy and paste the appropriate tax code.

7. Click save to apply.

Quick Tips!

For more information on Avalara tax integrations, check out the Tuplo Account Management Guide.

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