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I’ll try to be brief.
I have a store and over 1K listings. When I was setting it up originally I was too lazy to do subcategories for Men’s Clothing, dumb, I know. I assumed that one day I would make subcategories and I after I did this in settings, I could just go through my items in mens clothing, and move them into their correct subs…
Settings, store: Clothing > Mens >
Lead me to the boxes in order to list subcategories, I did this(the usual – pants shirts etc). I get an error to the effect of, I already have listings in this category, and I can’t have subcategories in categories blah blah… what am I doing wrong??Thanks in advance for any help….
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Sometimes I get an error if I try to create a category twice or if I try to create a parent category in a subcategory. Assuming that’s not what you’re talking about, you can bulk edit 500 listing at a time. Select all of them, click edit fields >categories>store categories>change to. Then change them into a random category and submit. That will ensure that none are in the clothing categories. Then just do what you were doing and edit each category.
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I would select all the items I wanted to categorize and bulk move them to an “other ” category temporarily. A completely different one. Not a subcategory. That way you wouldn’t get an error for anything already being in a category you were trying to edit. Then move them from the temporary category into the one you want.
Try it small scale first. Try it with 10 listings.
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Thanks for your help, am I getting warm here?
1. Say I now have approx 800 plus items in men’s clothing category. I move all the shirts to the ‘other’ category… in that example, when I set-up the sub cat I will still have men’s clothes in the main category and I would be blocked again.
2. Or do you mean, move everything in my men’s clothing category in bulk (800 to 1000) to ‘other’, then make the sub-categories for men’s as it would now be empty?
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The second option unfortunately. No guarantee that it would work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t though.
Curious on what the error actually says if you could cut and paste it.
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Here’s what happens…
Add categories in: All Categories > Clothing > Men’s
“You are trying to add subcategories into a category that contains listings. Listings and categories cannot appear at the same level within a category.”I’m trying to add: Shirts, pants, etc in the men’s clothing category. I have added subs before and never got this error. I think. 😉
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I could be wrong but it looks like you are trying to add subcategories into subcategories. The parent category would be clothing. Try making the main category men’s clothes instead of clothing. Then add subcategories (shirts, pants) to that category.
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I for one have never searched someone’s ebay store using the categories they created. In fact, I don’t even think I’ve ever searched a specific eBay category for all the listings that show up. I imagine most people search ebay like they would on Google, just by entering the key search terms.
In my store, I don’t bother with store categories. It seems like a waste of time. Does anyone feel that the store categories are helpful?
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When we got to 1000 items ion our inventory, then categories just help with store management. It’s for us and not for the customer. (Tough we do sometimes get buyers who buy multiple items from browsing a category).
Grouping our store into categories lets up put a sale on a specific category. So recently we’ve had a sale just on winter coats so we can move them while its cold.
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