Shopify - Navigation - Adding new Departments & Categories

Before you get started

How your Departments and Categories are brought across is dependent on your Retailer data & TWC sync settings. 
For more info: Shopify Integration Information & Understanding Navigation

Understanding Shopify navigation

After you add products and 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 Menu page in your Shopify admin. The appearance and location of menus depend on your store's theme.

To add a link to a new product range, ensure you have synced at least one stock item from that product range.

For more info: Shopify Help Center | Menus and links

Navigation & Vintage Themes

"Vintage" themes use original theme architecture that rely on linking to collections & collections filtered by tags. If you have a warning under Menus advising theme incompatibility with Filters, you likely have a Vintage theme.

If you have are not sure which theme type you have, refer to: Shopify Help Center | Check if your theme supports filtering

How to update Current store menus

Video: Adding Retailer Departments & Categories to your Shopify Store's Menu

How to update Vintage store menus

To add a Department (Collection)

1. Shopify Admin go to “Content” and then “Menus”
   
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 or start typing the department name (Collection)
6. Change the name field if necessary (this is what customers will see)
   

To add a link to your Category (Collection filtered by Tag)

 Categories are synced as Tags meaning you can link to a Department collection & filter by a relevant category tag.

1. Follow the steps as above to add the same Department collection
2. In the “Filter collection with tags (optional)” field, put in the Shopify tag that corresponds with your Retailer Category. e.g. "Candles" or "Category_Candles"
3. Change the Label field to match your category name e.g. "Candles"
   
4. To show your Category link under a Department
   
1. Using the grab icon (6 dots to the left of the link)

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