Once a brand connects their store and accepts partnership with your marketplace, everything is happening automatically. No extra work needed.

Category mapper tool allows you to quickly map or review product categories of brands joining your marketplace. Vendo tries to automatically match as much as brands product categories to your marketplace categories as we can.

You might, however, want to adjust the results of the auto-matching. By doing so, you will ensure that buyers are able to find products from various brands exactly where they'd expect them to be.

Once a Shopify brand is joining your marketplace, Vendo uses the following Shopify fields from Product organization section for category auto-matching:

Those values are added to synced product and presented in Category Mapper under External Category.

Depending on categories naming by brands and your marketplace you might want to use the Vendo Category Mapper tool to review & adjust the results of automatic matching.

For ease of use the mapper has a search feature that will help to narrow down the categories in the dropdown - once reviewing a brand that is joining your marketplace it's enough to:

In example below, the auto-matching of Shopify product categories sold by Luises brand, specializing in Men's accessories & shoes as well as Sport outfits, resulted in mixed results:

In the below example, the auto-matching of Shopify product categories was manually adjusted to a desired matching.

Please note: Shopify brands often create several temporary or working Collections which do not belong in the marketplace category tree and should not be matched anywhere e.g. Home page Collection.