Update category

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

Required access scopes

Your app must have the following access scopes to make this request: read_catalog, update_catalog

Path params

All path params are required.

Param	Type	Description
storeId	number	Ecwid store ID.
categoryId	number	Internal category 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	SEO page title translations.
seoDescription	string	SEO page description for web search results. Recommended length is under 160 characters.
seoDecriptionTranslated	string	SEO page description translations.
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.

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
updateCount	number	The number of updated items that defines if the request was successful. One of: 1 if the item was updated, 0 if the item was not updated.