How to add custom categories to HostShop?

Chris Wright
Published: 29 January 2022Last updated: 18 March 2025
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By default your HostShop will have six product categories. These are:

  • Web Hosting
  • Managed Cloud Hosting
  • Domain Names
  • Additional Products & Services
  • SSL Certificates
  • Virtual Private Servers

Default product categories in HostShop

As well as these categories, HostShop gives you the full flexibility to create custom categories, to better suit your business' product range. 

To add a new category:

 

When adding a category you need to configure the following:

Visible - This determines whether the category shows in your shop. Normally, you would want to ensure this is visable. 

Category Name - the name the category will be known by

Description - the description of the category shown in the shop

Products - The products that are to be in the category.

Link Text - this is the text shown on the button users click to go to the category

Sidebar Icon - here you can set a FontAwesome class to be used as an icon for the category. You can find a list of available icons here.

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