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title: "Adding a Product Category"
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updated: 2025-03-20T11:34:50Z
published: 2025-08-01T11:00:26Z
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# Adding a Product Category

You can organize Products into categories, which you can use in multiple areas of Quantify, such as the **Products** tab, new Shipments, and Estimates, and help with Product grouping and filtering.

You can make two kinds of Product Category, parent or child of the selected Category. If you create a parent Category and later wish to make it a child Category, simply reorganize the Category tree by dragging the desired child onto a parent level.

> [!WARNING]
> **Important:** The procedures below only use the default required fields for a Product Category. Some accounting software packages require more information for successful integration. For example, some require that each Product Category have **Rent GL codes, Sales GL codes and a Description** assigned. If your company uses such a package, be sure to enter that information into the Additional *Charge* dialog.

To add a product category:

1. Click **Product Catalog**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-X9G5Y9E9.png) The *Product Catalog* appears.
2. In the upper left of the *Product Catalog*, click the **Add** button ( ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/12ca4cbe-4145-44f2-8df4-6a053860257c.png)) and select the appropriate type of category. Your options are: **Parent Category** and **Child on selected category**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/add%20category%20new.gif)

> **Note: A child category is a sub-category of a parent category**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-517BGDOZ.png)

The *Category* dialog appears.
3. Click in the **Name** text field and enter the name of the new product category.
4. Enter any other information as necessary. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/ba8b361a-bf46-4e20-83c4-ea70f44971cb.png)
5. Click the **OK** button and the new Category will be added ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/89fa032e-f37b-42a7-be83-7f966c85a9cf.png)