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Does Webflow Ecommerce Support Category/Subcategory Structure?

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I'm well on my way to redesigning a WordPress site with WebFlow and Relume, but I may have hit a snag. The site combines a blog with e-commerce. From what I have found, WebFlow ecommerce does not support subcategories of categories, such as, mens/shoes, mens/tshirts. (i.e., category/subcategory). Most of the information I found is several years old, so maybe it's outdated. Category/subcategory seems like a pretty standard requirement for an ecommerce site. When I searched ecommerce here, I came across Smootify which integrates Shopify with Webflow. It looks it would do what I need. But one of the reasons I want to move off of WordPress is to get away from managing and updating plug-ins which is practically an everyday thing in WordPress. Does anyone know if Webflow ecommerce now supports category/subcategory?

3 comments

Nick M.
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Wayne E. Did you ever get a response to this..? I’m pretty curious as I’m prepared to sell eComm sites but haven’t yet.
Wayne E.
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Nick M. I did not. Since I asked the question, I've looked further into Smootify/Shopify. Smootify looks great. As I understand it, Shopify collections will create the category/subcategory structure. I wasn't too thrilled with adding Shopify into the mix but figured that it's the leading ecomm platform so I started down that road. Got my shop setup and Webflow, Smootify, and Shopify connected. But hit another snag. I'm selling digital download products. While Shopify supports this, according to the reviews, their app doesn't work. Which leads to a paid 3rd party app. Now I'm looking at a fairly high monthly cost to do what I am already doing on Wordpress with Woocommerce. I hate it because I really want to get away from WordPress and the constant (almost daily) plug-in updates, and fingers crossed that an update doesn't break something.
Nick M.
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Wayne E. wow sorry for the late reply, but that is wild. Are you sure Webflow hasn’t updated their eComm to provide subcategories? That sounds like a fairly simple thing. A hacky fix might even be to build them yourself with Template Pages. Treat a subcategory like an “Author” for a blog. Does that make sense? I also hate WordPress and would love a smooth solution to this. If you don’t mind sharing a read only link to your site, I’d like to poke around. Or maybe you’ve solved it by now and I will learn from the guinea pig! Thanks dude!