Hi,
Please how do I create a new category in the product category list and add custom meta fields?
Thank you
Topic summary
A user seeks to create custom product category metafields in Shopify rather than using the platform’s standard product categories or collections.
Initial Question:
- How to add new categories to the product category list with custom metafields
- Includes a screenshot showing the current category interface
Community Responses:
- One user provides Shopify’s official guide for adding category metafields
- Another clarifies that Shopify’s product categories are taxonomy-based (primarily for tax purposes) and suggests using Collections for product organization instead
Core Issue:
The original poster explains they need custom metafields because:
- Standard product variant metafields require translation across 10 languages (time-consuming)
- Translation tools like Localize don’t work with these fields
- Product exports fail to backup standard metafields properly
- They want metafields that function as variant selection criteria, not just additional display values
Status: The discussion remains open with no definitive solution provided for creating custom category-level metafields that avoid the translation and export limitations described.
Hello Peter @Peter18 You should have a look at this official Shopify guide on how to add new custom meta fields in your store https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/custom-data/metafields/category-metafields/add-category-metafields
Everything you need should be there
Hi,
Product categories in Shopify are based on standard taxonomy and are used for tax rates - https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/details/product-category.
You may consider looking at the “Collections,” which organize your products into groups and make them easier for users to browse.
Hi,
The point is that we want to use these original product categories, not for organizing. But because they add to the product variations metafields from a known rank.
We are not comfortable with these metafields and need to create our own metafields, with our own name and value.
And the reason is that with these metafields we don’t need to translate the specified values, and the name of the metafield.
If we create product variant metafields, then we have to translate the name of the field and all the specified values for each product.
We have 10 languages, so this is very time consuming with a very large knife of numbers.
They can’t even be translated using localize and also then there is a problem when we export the product, it can’t export them, it can’t back them up.
And these are displayed as additional values to the variant, it can’t be the value from which the product is selected.
Thank you
Hi,
I replied in the window above because it didn’t allow me to send a reply to you as well
Thank you