Before you get started

Understanding Shopify navigation
After you add products and create collections, webpages, store policies, or blog posts, you need to organise them on your online store so that customers will be able to find them.
You can view and change your online store navigation from the Navigation page in your Shopify admin. The appearance and location of menus depend on your store's theme.
For more info:
Click HERE for the Shopify Help Center's guide to menus & links
Related articles
Click HERE for Shopify integration information.
Click HERE for a guide to using the generate tags feature to add/remove categories from Shopify navigation.

Add a new Department to a Shopify Navigation

  1. From the Shopify Admin Panel go to “Online Store” and then “Navigation”
  2. Select the menu you wish to edit (e.g. “Main menu”)
  3. To add a new department to the navigation, scroll down until you see “Add menu item” and click on that
  4. Click on the Link field
  5. Select “Collections”
  6. Select the Department you want to add to the navigation.
  7. Change the name field if necessary (this is what customers will see).

Once you have added the department, this is how it should look:

 

Add a new Category to a Shopify Navigation:

  1. From the Shopify Admin Panel go to “Online Store” and then “Navigation”
  2. Select the menu you wish to edit (e.g. “Main menu”)
  3. To add a new department to the navigation, scroll down until you see “Add menu item” and click on that
  4. Click on the Link field
  5. Select “Collections”
  6. Select the Department you want to add to the navigation.
  7. Change the name field if necessary (this is what customers will see).
  8. In the “Filter collection with tags (optional)” field, put in the Category name the exact same as it is in Retailer*.

Once you have added the category, this is how it should look:

 

If your category name contains symbols such as a comma or dash, do not include these in the category field; replace them with a space. For example, if your category name is ‘Spider-man’ you would enter it as ‘Spider man’ into the field.