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# Categories

How to browse, search, create, edit, and delete service categories in the two-pane Categories screen.

# Service Categories

This screen lets you organize the service categories your business uses, in a nested tree (a category can have sub-categories underneath it), and create, edit, or delete any category.

## What you can do here

- **Browse the category tree.** The left panel (or the "Tree" button on smaller screens) lists every category. Click a folder to open it, or click "All categories" to reset to the top level. Categories with sub-categories show a count and can be expanded or collapsed.
- **Drill into a category.** Clicking a category card, or one of its sub-category chips, filters the grid to that category's children. A breadcrumb trail at the top tracks where you are, and a header card shows the current category's name, ref code, and sub-category count with its own Edit and Delete buttons.
- **Search.** Use the "Search categories…" box to find a category by name.
- **Create a category.** Use "New Category" to open the form.
- **Edit or delete a category.** Each card has pencil (edit) and trash (delete) icons. Delete is disabled, with a tooltip explaining why, if the category still has sub-categories: you have to remove those first.
- Other toolbar actions include filtering to root-level categories only and a maintenance action to fix category breadcrumbs.

## Steps

1. To add a category: click **New Category**, fill in Name, Ref Code, Parent Category, Description, Display Order, and optionally Tags, Terms and Policies, a Google Merchant Category ID, and a photo, then click **Submit**.
2. To edit a category: click the pencil icon on its card (or the Edit button on the header card when you're inside it), update the fields, and submit.
3. To delete a category: click the trash icon (or the Delete button on the header card) and confirm. If it has sub-categories, remove or move those first.
4. To move deeper into the structure: click a category card or one of its sub-category chips to see what's inside it.

## Related

- /help/service-manager/services
- /help/service-manager/lineitems

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