Define Your Catalogs Taxonomy

All right, so you've picked existing

store and now the next decision for you

to make is whether or not you want to

manage product types and product tags

and those are going to be separate

choices for you. So what happens by

default we have them checked on and when

they're checked on we show our product

type tools and our product tag tools and

we include product types and product

tags discoverability score. So here you

can see some product types and down here

you can see some tag ones. Now, if you

uncheck those boxes, we're not going to

provide those tools

or

include them in the score. So, down

here, you see product types and product

tags are gone. But don't worry, if you

set these to off right now, you'll

always be able to go back later into

settings and turn them back on. And once

you turn them back on, you'll see the

product types and tag tools showing up

here in the UI again. Now, let's talk a

little bit about why you want to manage

product types and product tags. So,

product types, if you're in an old

platform before product categories were

popularly used, you probably managed

your collections using product types.

So, you're going to want to manage your

product types moving forward or at least

migrate them to product categories. So,

you can see in the product types tools,

we have two of them. One is to migrate

your product types able to migrate them

to categories or other entities in the

Shopify taxonomy and you can also manage

your product types. You can say here's a

list of product types that are

acceptable in my store and these other

ones are not acceptable and it'll help

you you know move the unacceptables and

migrate them to an acceptable bucket.

For tags we have a tool to migrate them

to meta fields and other entities in

your store. So if your store today is

heavily reliant on product types and

product tags in your new taxonomy where

you're using categories and meta fields,

you may still use product types and

product tags or you may migrate them all

and then not use them anymore in the

future. So if you need to migrate them,

leave this on. You can turn them off

later after migrations are done. But if

you need to migrate them and or keep

them moving forward because you're going

to have a mix of categories and product

types to define your collections, for

example, then you'll keep them turned on

all the time. So if you're already using

tags and types, keep them turned on. If

you're not using them, go ahead and

unselect them. And hitting the done

button is the same action here as

checking this box. It'll just move you

on to step