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The storefront navigation: hand-built routes through your catalogue, with images, ordering and click counts that tell you what is working. 3 parts.
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Navigation
Menus, contents and presentation
The structure, what goes in it, and how each menu page looks.
Menus and sub-menus
The navigation shoppers browse, separate from your category tree
no stored settingsA menu is a navigation entry on your storefront. Menus nest, so a menu can hold sub-menus, and each carries a display order that decides where it sits. Rows can be dragged on the list to reorder them rather than typing numbers.
Menus are deliberately separate from categories. Categories are how your catalogue is organised; menus are how shoppers are invited to browse it. They often overlap, but not always, and keeping them apart means you can promote a seasonal route through the store without restructuring the catalogue behind it.
Each menu shows how many items it holds and how many clicks it has had. That click count is the most useful number here: a menu nobody clicks is either badly named or in the wrong place, and it is the cheapest thing in the store to fix.
💡 Note: Click counts are the quickest signal of whether your navigation works. A menu with items but no clicks is usually named in your language rather than your customers’.
What goes in a menu
Products added directly, in the order you choose
no stored settingsProducts are added to a menu individually, which gives you complete control over what a shopper sees and the order they see it in. Each item shows its own click count, so you can tell which products are earning their place.
That control is the trade-off. A menu will not update itself as the catalogue changes, so a menu built for a season needs revisiting when the season ends. For groupings that should stay current on their own, a rule-based category is the better tool.
Items that are no longer available are marked as such rather than quietly disappearing, so a menu never silently shrinks without telling you.
💡 Note: Menus are hand-built and stay as you leave them. If you want a grouping that keeps itself current as products come and go, use a rule-based category from Categories instead.
Images, keywords and SEO
How a menu page presents itself
no stored settingsA menu carries a featured image and, optionally, a banner. The banner has a recommended size of 1600 by 400, which is worth respecting: a banner at the wrong proportions will be cropped rather than fitted.
A description and keywords can be added, and the URL slug is editable. As with categories, changing the slug on an established menu changes an address that people and search engines already hold.
A health indicator flags menus that need attention, typically empty ones or those with nothing to show.
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Related panels
Categories, which organise rather than navigate.
The products a menu is built from.
Search matching menu names, and the store sidebar.
How menus and the cart icon appear on the storefront.
Manufacturer pages, another browsing route.
Assigning a product to menus from its own screen.
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