Seeking solutions for auto categorizing a product catalog

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A store owner managing 5,000 products is seeking automated solutions for product categorization to reduce manual workload. They’re looking for Shopify-integrated apps or AI tools and want to hear about others’ experiences with taxonomy challenges.

A community member responded with four recommended Shopify apps:

  • CatMan: Category Manager
  • SmartTag AI ‐ Product Tags App
  • Product Automator
  • Entaice ‐ AI Collection Sort

These tools are suggested to automate the categorization process. The discussion remains open, as the original poster hasn’t yet confirmed which solution they’ll pursue or requested additional details about setup complexity and accuracy—questions they initially raised.

Summarized with AI on October 29. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi Shopify Community,

I run a shopify store with 5k products across multiple categories, and im struggling with manually categorizing.

And now looking for a solution to automate this process to save time.
Ideally would be nice that something integrates with shopify.

Are there any shopify apps, AI tools, or services you recommend?

Appreciate hearing about your experiences how did you solve taxonomy challenges, and what tools worked best? If you’re using a specific app, what’s the setup like, and how accurate is it?

Thanks in advance and happy to provide more details about my catalog or needs if that helps.

Best

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Hey @sanitag ,

Welcome to Shopify Community. Yes, you are right managing a large catalog of 5,000 products across multiple categories can be time-consuming, but there are several Shopify apps and tools that are designed to automate the categorization process.

Here are some Shopify apps that automate the categorization process.

  1. CatMan: Category Manager
  2. SmartTag AI ‑ Product Tags App
  3. Product Automator
  4. Entaice ‑ AI Collection Sort

By using these apps you will be able to categorize the products in automatically process.

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