How do I categorize products like men, women, and kids on my online store?

Store Design

Topic summary

The original poster seeks guidance on organizing products into categories (Men, Women, Kids, Fitness, Dresses) for their online store at fentycover.com.

Solution Provided:

  • In Shopify, categories are called “Collections”
  • Collections can be created with hierarchical navigation (e.g., Women → Jewelry → Necklaces)
  • Products are organized using attributes like:
    • Title keywords
    • Vendor names
    • Tags (e.g., “women,” “red,” “clothing”)
    • Product type

Implementation Steps:

  1. Navigate to Products → Collections in Shopify admin
  2. Create new collections using the CONDITIONS area
  3. Define rules based on product tags and attributes
  4. Start with lowest-level categories first and preview results
  5. Add or adjust product tags as needed for proper categorization

Additional Question:
A separate user asks how to add labels like “bestseller” or “trending” on product detail pages, referencing their store popupkids.in as an example.

The discussion remains open with the labeling question unanswered.

Summarized with AI on October 24. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

I need help with setting up how to set products Category… Like Men, Women, Kids, Fitness, Women Dresses & more?

Check my store to see what I mean at fentycover.com. Thank you for your help.

2

So instead of your products page being first or your navigation taking you to all products you would rather have something like?

Men

Women

Then under Women

–>Jewelry

–>Clothes

–>Accessories

Then when the menu expands

Jewelry

–>Necklaces

–>Earrings

–>Sets

Clothes

–>Dresses

–>Tops

Each of your products has several qualities that will let you categorize them. Words in the title, vendor, tags, and product type are the most often used. Categories are “Collections” in Shopify

For the Dresses category your products that are dresses would need to have one or more of the qualities.

It is best to start with the lowest category/collection and then preview what it looks like to see if you’re on the right track. You may need to add tags to your products to get them to fall into the correct collection

Make a new category from the Products–>Collections are in admin

then Create Collection

you’ll see a ‘CONDITIONS’ area. This is where you specify what product goes into a collection

Your product, say, a dress, should have the tags, women, red, clothing. A watch might have the tags, women, men, accessories, gold. These are suggestions - you need to make up your own schema for how you’ll organize your products into categories.

You can check my store, redbeautytextiles.com , to see how I’ve got my products organized.

3

How do i add labels like bestseller, trending on my PDP? Double Pocket Jelly Duffle Bag - Blue – Popup Kids like here on this product i want to add label?