Creating Products

Store categories

Build the category tree your products roll up into — nest it to any depth, and let rules file incoming products for you.

Your Store Categories are the structure your products roll up into — the way your catalog is organized in-store. You'll find it as Store Categories in the sidebar. It's your own taxonomy, built however your shop actually thinks about its shelves.

Building the tree

The category tree nests to any depth — top-level categories, subcategories under them, and further levels wherever you need them. Products and PO line items can be assigned to a node at any level.

Top-level category adds a new root category.
Each category's menu lets you Add child category, Rename, Move… (re-parent it anywhere it's valid), or Delete.
Every node shows a rollup count of the products filed under it (including its descendants).

Deleting a category that products still reference doesn't erase anything — it's archived, and the affected products are noted, so you never lose an assignment by accident.

Two kinds of "category"

Tangerine Star keeps two ideas separate, on purpose:

Vendor category — what the vendor called it on their PO. This is read-only telemetry: useful context, but it's their language, not yours.
Store category — the node in your tree that a product actually files under. This is what organizes your catalog.

When you look at a categorized line item, its chip shows the store category, and the tooltip surfaces the vendor category separately — along with how the assignment happened (by a rule, by you, by AI, or by a vendor mapping).

Assigning products to categories

Three ways, depending on scale:

One product at a time

On a product's page, the Store category picker searches your tree and files that product with one click.

One line item at a time

While reviewing a PO, reassign a line item's category right from its chip.

By rule, for a whole vendor

Map a vendor's PO categories to your store categories once, and every future import from that vendor files itself automatically.

That third option is the payoff: set a category rule for a vendor and incoming products land in the right corner of your store as they arrive, instead of being filed by hand. See it worked through in the Cascade Tropicals category-rules scenario.

Category rules live alongside your other rules — see The Rules hub for the full picture.

Creating Products

Turn PO line items into real, sellable products — named, priced, and structured — with Tory doing the heavy lifting.

Naming, pricing & packaging rules

The three core rule families — how a product reads, what it costs, and how it packs — and how you teach each one once.