Categories and Smart Rules

Organize your catalog into folders and give each one Smart Rules: publish defaults, AI instructions, margin markup and per-channel syndication.

Your categories are your own

The Categories page organizes your catalog into folders — imports create them automatically, under a top folder named after where the products came from: "Etsy", "Shopify", "eBay", "Amazon", or "File Import" for a file. You can add, rename, move or delete folders in the tree on the left. These folders are internal organization: the marketplace category a product is listed under is chosen during AI classification (or on the product itself), not here.

What makes the page powerful is the right-hand pane: select a folder and configure its Smart Rules — "Smart Rules apply to every product in this folder and its subfolders. A subfolder inherits these values and can override them with its own."

The four Smart Rule sections

• Marketplace Defaults — filled onto products at publish when the product doesn't set the value itself (an explicit product value always wins): Condition, Handling Time, plus Amazon's Fulfillment Channel and Shipping Template and eBay's payment / return / fulfillment Business Policies for the marketplaces you have connected.
• AI Processing Instructions — free-text guidance that steers AI attribute extraction for products imported into the folder (e.g. "Always convert US shoe sizes to UK sizes"). Applies to rows processed after saving; re-run a row from Review to re-process it.
• Margin Markup — baseline pricing: a product published from the folder with a Cost but no explicit Price gets Price = Cost × (1 + markup); repricing rules take over from there. Apply to folder now recalculates prices from cost for the folder's existing products — it overwrites current prices and pushes the update, and works through large folders in batches of 500 per run.
• Channel Syndication — per-marketplace toggles controlling where the folder's products are allowed to be published. Turning a channel off holds back new publishes only — live listings stay up. A block set on a parent folder can't be re-enabled from a subfolder.

How inheritance behaves

Rules resolve deepest wins: a subfolder's own value overrides its ancestors, and an unset field shows the inherited value as a dimmed hint ("Inherits from …"). To fall back to the parent's value, simply clear the field and save. The pane's product counter shows the rule's reach, with a View Products in Inventory shortcut.

Tree housekeeping

Folders with products or subfolders can't be deleted until they're empty ("Please remove all child items"). A top folder works like any other folder: you can rename it, and the next import still finds it. Save your rule edits with Save Smart Rules — Channel Syndication toggles apply instantly.