Create a Category
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Navigate to Categories
Go to Settings and select Categories.
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Create Category
Click the Create Category button.
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Enter Details
- Name: A descriptive label for the category (e.g., “Facials”, “Injectables”, “Consultations”).
- Description: An optional summary of the category’s purpose.
- Parent category: Optional. Pick a category to nest this one under, or leave it as Top level (no parent) to keep it at the root. Categories can nest up to three levels deep, so you can build hierarchies like Injectables > Neurotoxins > Botox. Items always belong to one specific category — the parents exist for grouping and rollups only.
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Save
Click Create. The category is immediately available for assignment to services, products, medications, and packages.
Edit a Category
Click on a category name in the list to open the editor. Update the name, description, or parent category and click Save Changes. Moving a category to a new parent takes every child with it. You can’t move a category into one of its own descendants — those options are greyed out in the parent picker.Nesting and Rollups
When a category has children, tables that Group by category — for example Revenue, Provider Earnings, and the group-by view of the Packages list — show the category as an expandable row with its subcategories nested beneath. The parent row rolls up totals from itself and every descendant, so you can see subtotals at any level without flattening or double-counting.Where Categories Are Used
Categories appear throughout the platform:- Services, Products, Medications, Packages — Each item can be assigned to one category for organization.
- Billing & Checkout — Items can be grouped by category in the checkout flow (controlled by the Item Sort Type setting in General Preferences).
- Commission Structures — Commission rules can be scoped to specific categories.
- Membership Discounts — Membership plans can offer category-level discounts that apply to all items in a category.
- Tax Rules — Tax rates can be scoped to items in specific categories.
- Reporting — Revenue and sales data can be filtered and grouped by category.
Advanced Configuration
Category Merging
Category Merging
If you rename a category to match an existing category’s name, the system will merge them. All items previously assigned to the renamed category will be reassigned to the existing one.
Restoring an Archived Category
Restoring an Archived Category
If you create a new category with the same name as one that was archived earlier, the archived category is restored instead of a fresh one being created. Any items, services, or commission rules that were attached to the original come back with it. To start clean, archive the old category with Reassign to set to another category first, then create the new one under a different name.
Permissions
Permissions
- View Inventory — Required to view categories.
- Manage Inventory — Required to create, edit, and delete categories.
