{"id":331,"date":"2018-07-28T01:50:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/can-i-migrate-categories-and-subcategories-of-products-to-shopify\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:26:07","slug":"can-i-migrate-categories-and-subcategories-to-shopify","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/can-i-migrate-categories-and-subcategories-to-shopify\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I migrate categories and subcategories of products to Shopify?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes. LitExtension can migrate both product categories and subcategories from your Source Store into separate Shopify collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you select the additional option <strong>\u201cMigrate Source Store categories into Shopify Smart Collections,\u201d<\/strong> the corresponding category and subcategory names will also be added to the relevant products as tags. Shopify then uses these tags to assign products to the appropriate smart collections automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Shopify doesn\u2019t support sub-collections in its admin. Therefore, after the migration, you\u2019ll need to recreate the original category hierarchy on your storefront manually:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From your Shopify admin, go to <strong>Content > Menus<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open your existing <strong>Main menu<\/strong>, or click <strong>Add menu<\/strong> to create a new one. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/add-sub-category-shopify-1024x490.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/add-sub-category-shopify-1024x490.png 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/add-sub-category-shopify-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/add-sub-category-shopify-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/add-sub-category-shopify-1536x735.png 1536w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/add-sub-category-shopify.png 1913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add the parent category as a menu item and link it to the corresponding migrated collection. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add each subcategory as another menu item and link it to its respective collection. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use the drag handle beside a subcategory to move it below and slightly to the right of its parent category. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/drag-subcategory-1024x489.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/drag-subcategory-1024x489.png 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/drag-subcategory-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/drag-subcategory-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/drag-subcategory-1536x734.png 1536w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/drag-subcategory.png 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Repeat these steps for the remaining categories, then click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you have any other questions, please email us at<strong> litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1406,1460,1308,1309],"class_list":["post-331","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-litexension","doc_tag-migrate-categories","doc_tag-shopify","doc_tag-shopify-migration"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7760,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/331\/revisions\/7760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23"}],"next":[{"title":"How to preserve SEO and Pagerank of your store when migrating to Shopify?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/preserve-seo-and-pagerank-shopify-migration\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/999"}],"prev":[{"title":"How to import custom fields\/attributes to Shopify?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/where-can-i-find-some-extra-data-after-shopify-migration\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}