Products
Setting up your catalogue
Item types, categories, ranges and suppliers — what each is for and the order to build them in.
Last updated October 14, 2026
Build the structure before you add products. Retrofitting it to a catalogue of five hundred items is painful.
| What it is for | |
|---|---|
| Item Types | The template — which extra fields a product of this kind has, and which content a tribe may override. |
| Categories | Your main taxonomy, and where pricing markups are carried. Can be nested. |
| Ranges | A second, flatter grouping that sits under categories. |
| Suppliers | Where products come from, with their own markup settings. |
| Customisation Methods | Named decoration methods — embroidery, print — reused across products. |
Item types do the most work
An item type defines the custom fields products of that kind carry — text, numbers, currency, lists, images, rich text and more. It also has a Tribe-editable Core Content list deciding which standard fields a tribe may reword for itself.
Categories carry pricing
As well as grouping products, a category holds markup settings and a minimum-order surcharge. That is why the category tree is worth thinking about — it is not only navigation.
Suppliers and imported categories
A supplier has a name, a code and an Automatic Sync switch. Opening one gives you its own categories and items, where you map each supplier category to your main category and range. Products imported into a mapped supplier category are then filed into your own tree automatically.
Translating categories and ranges
If your website runs in more than one language, open the category or range and choose the language from the selector at the top of the page. The Media and Components tabs, and fields such as Status and URL Slug, are disabled while a language is selected, because they are shared by every language.
- Choose the language you want to translate into.
- Select Translate from default, next to the Details heading. The name, menu label, banner text, page headings, introduction, meta title, meta description and page content are translated with AI and written into the fields. The first time you open a language its fields hold your default text, so that is what is translated; once a language has been saved, the button translates its saved text instead.
- Read through the result and correct anything that needs it.
- Select Save. Nothing is stored until you do.