excels at mediocrity

When adding a product to the americommerce system you can add a primary category on the general info tab. There is also a categories tab where you can add additional categories. It is important to remember that if you hide the primary category, the product will be removed from all of the secondary categories that you have assigned to the product. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why my products weren;t showing up in the categories they were assigned to.

For us, I think our best option is to make the brand category the primary because if we have a brand on a website, we will want everything by that brand (in most cases). Then if we turn off the brand, it will be removed from the other categories. I don’t see us discontinueing or hiding a category like towel bars, and keeping other bathroom accessories – but i could see us wanting to hide a brand. So this way if we’re struggling with a supplier or quit carrying a brand for a time, we can hide the primary and it will be removed from all categories and sites.