Understanding Category Template
About Category Template
Category Template is used for mapping your PrestaShop products with the TikTok Shop selling categories, allowing you to organize your product listings on your Shop. The category templates enable you to automatically map products you're selling on your store on PrestaShop to the corresponding TikTok Shop categories without the hassles of manually mapping every new product you add to your store. With this feature, you can automate your product mapping. This means that if, in the future, any new PrestaShop product of the same category or vendor (or following the condition as set by you in the category template) is added, it will automatically get mapped under the respective TikTok Shop selling category.
You can also modify/edit the mapping of all products under that Category Template in a go. With the help of a Category Template, you can apply a certain set of rules and customization to your products.
Let’s break down the concept with an example.
Suppose you have a PrestaShop store where you sell various types of clothing. Within PrestaShop, you have different categories for your products, such as "T-shirts", "Pants", and "Dresses". Now, you also want to list these products on TikTok Shop, which has its own categories like "Fashion", "Apparel", and specific categories for each type of clothing item.
Instead of manually mapping each T-shirt, Pant, or Dress to the corresponding category on TikTok Shop every time you add a new product, you can use a Category Template.
Here's How it Works
- Setting Up the Category Template: You create a Category Template on the app. In this template, you specify rules or conditions. For example, you might set a rule that any product from the PrestaShop category "T-shirts" should automatically be mapped to the TikTok Shop category "Apparel" and specifically to "T-shirts".
- Automation: Once the Category Template is set up, whenever you add a new T-shirt product to your PrestaShop store and assign it the category "T-shirts", the Category Template automatically recognizes this and maps it to the "Apparel" category on TikTok Shop under the "T-shirts" subcategory. This mapping happens without any manual intervention.
- Consistency and Efficiency: The Category Template ensures consistency across your product listings. It saves you time and effort by eliminating the need to manually map each product individually. Moreover, if you sell multiple T-shirt designs or brands, as long as they are categorized under "T-shirts" in PrestaShop, they will all automatically map to the appropriate TikTok Shop category according to your template.
- Future Updates: If in the future you add new T-shirt designs or even expand into other categories like "Pants" or "Dresses", as long as you maintain your Category Template, any new products added will continue to be automatically mapped based on the rules you've defined.
In essence, the Category Template simplifies and automates the process of syncing your PrestaShop product categories with TikTok Shop categories, ensuring your products are correctly categorized and visible to customers on both channels with minimal manual effort.
How is a Category Template Beneficial
A category template feature is of immense help to sellers with a large volume of products, a considerably small number of product categories, and sellers who frequently launch new products to enhance their product catalogs. The benefits of Category Templates of the TikTok Shop Connector are as follows:
- Automation: One of the primary benefits. It saves time and effort by automatically mapping products from PrestaShop to corresponding categories on TikTok Shop. This eliminates the need for manual mapping every time a new product is added, ensuring consistency and efficiency in managing product listings.
- Consistency: It helps maintain consistency across your product listings on both PrestaShop and TikTok by ensuring products are mapped to the correct categories. It enhances the user experience and makes it easier for customers to find and browse your products.
- Scalability: As your product catalog grows, maintaining manual mappings can become cumbersome. The Category Template scales with your business, automatically applying mappings based on predefined rules or conditions as you add new products or expand into different categories.
- Ease of Management: Managing product mappings through a Category Template simplifies backend operations. It reduces the likelihood of errors that can occur with manual mapping and streamlines the process for store administrators.
- Flexibility: Category Templates typically allow for flexibility in defining mapping rules. You can set conditions based on PrestaShop product attributes such as category, vendor, tags, etc., and map them to corresponding attributes on external platforms. This flexibility ensures that your products are accurately represented across different channels.
- Adaptability: As TikTok updates its categories or introduces new features, Category Templates can be adjusted or expanded to accommodate these changes. This adaptability ensures that your product mappings remain up-to-date and aligned with channel requirements.
In short, using a Category Template enhances operational efficiency, improves product management, and ensures consistency in product categorization across platforms, contributing to a smoother and more effective operational experience.
Category Template List:
You can have an overview of the following in this grid:
- Name: It reflects the name of the products, as displayed on TikTok.
- Category Name: It reflects the name of the category template assigned to that specific product.
- Rules: It reflects the condition on which a PrestaShop product is mapped to a TikTok Shop category.
- Total Products Affected: It reflects the total number of products of the same name.
- View Rule: Upon clicking on View Rule, you can get an overview of the rules based on which the products are mapped to this specific category.
- Edit: You can edit/delete a specific product from the said template using this button.
- Click on the Edit tab, after which you’ll be redirected to the edit page.
- Herein, you can change or update the category template name and pricing rule, under the Category Template Info.
- In the Category Attribute Mapping, you can edit/update the attribute mapping details previously assigned to the template.
- Next, under the Rule Groups section, you can change/update the rules to be considered while mapping PrestaShop Products with TikTok Shop.
Product Must Match: The rule defines whether you want all the selected conditions to be fulfilled or any one of them.
You can assign products to the template based on the following conditions:
- Select “Any Condition” to fetch the product(s) fulfilling any of the conditions created.
- Select “All Condition” to fetch the product(s) fulfilling all the conditions created.
- Click on “Add More” to add multiple conditions in the Rule Group.
- Click on “Run Query” to fetch the number of the product(s) based on the Rule Group(s) created.
You can also click on Override Existing Products. This means if you have assigned a product to this Category, and it happens to be included in some other category as well. The app will override the previous category and place the orders in this new category.
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