---
title: "Category mapping"
description: "Match your store categories to each site's own category list so your products appear where shoppers look for them."
url: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/category-mapping/"
lang: en
alternates:
  en: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/category-mapping/"
  hu: "https://docs.poltura.com/hu/feeds/category-mapping/"
---

# Category mapping

Match your store categories to each site's own category list so your products appear where shoppers look for them.

- Where: Feeds → Category mapping

Sites sort products into their own category lists. When you match your categories to a site's list, your products land where shoppers look for them. On some marketplaces a product cannot be listed without it. You match each category once per site, and every product in it follows.

![The Category mapping page with your categories, their product counts and a Choose a category picker for the site’s list](https://docs.poltura.com/screenshots/en/feeds/category-mapping.webp)

_A suggested match only needs an Accept._

## Before you start

- Your products must be in [categories](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/categories/). Products are matched through their categories.
- You need at least one feed for a site that has a category list. Some sites take your own category names as they are, and then there is nothing to match. The page says so.
- A marketplace that shows its categories per seller account needs a finished feed first.

## Match a category

1. Open **Feeds** and choose **Category mapping**. From a feed, the **Categories** tab opens the same page for that feed's site.
2. If you have feeds for several sites, pick the site's list under **Category list**.
3. If the list is not loaded yet, click **Load the list**.
4. On the row of your category, click **Choose a category**, search the site's list and pick one.
5. For a category with subcategories, choose **Use for N subcategories** or **Only for this category**.
6. The row now shows the site's category, and the meter on top moves.

**Change** picks another category. **Remove match** removes it, and products in that category go out with your own category name until you match it again.

Use **Show** to switch between **All categories** and **Not matched**. Where a site has its list in several languages, **Category names in** changes the language you read it in.

## Accept suggestions

Poltura suggests a site category for unmatched categories. A suggestion shows as **Suggested** on the row, and nothing is applied until you accept it.

1. Click **Suggest with AI** to get suggestions for the categories that have none yet.
2. On a row, click **Accept** to take the suggestion, or **Choose another** to pick a category yourself.
3. To take the confident suggestions in one go, click **Accept N suggestions**.
4. The accepted rows show the site's category.

## Read the coverage meter

The meter shows the share of products in a matched category, for example "82% matched" and "410 of 500 products". Products in a matched category go out with the site's own category. The others go out with your category names, which the site may sort by hand.

## Give one product another category

When one product does not fit its category's match, change it for that product only.

1. Open the product and find the **Feed categories** card. It shows where the product lands on each site: from its category, set for this product, or **Not matched yet**.
2. Click **Change for this product** and pick the site's category.
3. The card shows **Set for this product**.

**Use the category's match** undoes it. See also [Edit a product](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/edit-a-product/).

## Fill in the fields a marketplace asks for

Some marketplaces ask for details per category, such as size or material.

1. Match the category first.
2. Click **Fields** on its row. The panel **Fields for** the category opens, with each field marked **Required** or **Optional**.
3. For each field, choose under **Comes from** where the value comes from: **The same value for every product**, one of your product details, one of your variant options, or **Not set**.
4. Click **Save fields**.

A product that misses a required field shows it as an issue on that feed. Product details are your [attributes](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/attributes/), variant options are described in [Variants and options](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/variants-and-options/).

## Good to know

- Subcategories that follow a parent show **Same as** the parent's name. Match a subcategory yourself to give it its own category.
- The match belongs to the site's list, so feeds for the same site in different markets share it.
- A row marked **Left out by a rule anyway** holds products a [feed rule](https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/rules/) leaves out, so matching it changes nothing for now.

> **Warning**
>
> Some sites pair products by hand. If you change the category of products such a site already lists, it treats them as new products and they can disappear from its pages until they are paired again. Before saving, the admin asks **Change the category of live products?** and shows how many live products are affected. Match categories before a feed goes live where you can.

## If something goes wrong

- **"No feed uses a category list yet".** None of your feeds is for a site with its own list. Set up a feed first, see [Add and set up a feed](https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/add-a-feed/#setup).
- **"The category list could not be loaded".** The site did not answer. Try again in a few minutes.
- **A row says "No longer on the site's list. Choose again."** The site removed that category. Pick a new one.
- **The site now lists a different number of categories.** Click **Use the new list**. Until then you keep matching to the old one.
- **"AI suggestions are not available right now".** Match by hand with **Choose a category**, or try again later.
- **You cannot load a list or change a match.** Your role may only read feeds. Ask someone who may change feeds, see [People and roles](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/organization/team/).

## Related

- [Feeds](https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/)
- [Feed issues](https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/issues/)
- [Feed rules](https://docs.poltura.com/en/feeds/rules/)
- [Categories](https://docs.poltura.com/en/products/categories/)
- [Allegro](https://docs.poltura.com/en/apps/allegro/)
- [eMAG](https://docs.poltura.com/en/apps/emag/)