Smart Categories – Automatically populate categories


Categories are self-maintaining: rules automatically populate your categories with genuine classifications, which are effective for sorting, feeds and SEO. Manual classifications remain protected.

Plugin features and functions

Maintaining categories manually takes time and, as your product range grows, it becomes almost impossible to keep them up to date. Whilst dynamic product groups do the selecting for you, they only generate virtual lists. For manual sorting, product exports, feeds, SEO URLs and breadcrumbs, you need genuine category assignments.

This extension combines both. You define rules that link a dynamic product group to a target category. When run, the extension records the relevant products as genuine category assignments, just like a manual assignment. New or amended products are automatically placed where they belong.

  • Categories are filled in automatically; manual assignment is no longer necessary
  • Genuine category assignments, effective for sorting, feeds and SEO
  • Always up to date thanks to automatic updates and daily synchronisation
  • Manual mappings remain protected and unchanged
  • Full control with preview, priorities and two modes per rule

To the documentation including step-by-step instructions and FAQs

Shopware plugin for automatically populating categories