Create category

POST https://app.ecwid.com/api/v3/{storeId}/categories

Request and response example

Request:

POST /api/v3/1003/categories/9691094 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer secret_token
Host: app.ecwid.com
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache

{
  "name": "Lemons",
  "enabled": true,
  "orderBy": 10,
  "parentId": 9691094
}

Response:

{
  "id": 10869029
}

Required access scopes

Your app must have the following access scopes to make this request: create_catalog

Path params

All path params are required.

Param	Type	Description
storeId	number	Ecwid store ID.

Headers

The Authorization header is required.

Header	Format	Description
Authorization	Bearer secret_ab***cd	Access token of the application.

Request JSON

A JSON object with the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
parentId	number	ID of the parent category, if any.
productIds	array of numbers	IDs of products assigned to the category as they appear in Ecwid admin > Catalog > Categories. Requires productIds=true query param.
orderBy	number	Sorting order of the category. Starts from 10 and increments by 10.
name	string	Category name visible on the storefront.
nameTranslated	object translations	Available translations for the category name.
description	string	Category description in HTML format.
descriptionTranslated	object translations	Available translations for the category description.
seoTitle	string	SEO page title for web search results. Recommended length is under 55 characters.
seoTitleTranslated	string	Available translations for the SEO page title.
seoDescription	string	SEO page description for web search results. Recommended length is under 160 characters.
seoDecriptionTranslated	string	Available translations for the SEO page description.
enabled	boolean	true if the category is enabled, false otherwise. Use hidden_categories in request to get disabled categories
customSlug	string	Custom slug for the category page URL.
externalReferenceId	string	Internal field for Lightspeed X-Series connection. This ID is unique for each category in one store.

translations

Object with text field translations in the "lang": "text" format, where the "lang" is an ISO 639-1 language code. For example:

{
    "en": "Sample text",
    "nl": "Voorbeeldtekst"
}

Translations are available for all active store languages. Only the default language translations are returned if no other translations are provided for the field. Find active store languages with GET /profile request > languages > enabledLanguages.

Response JSON

A JSON object with the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
id	number	Internal ID of the created category.