How To Categorize Products

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

Hello,

 

We're running a webshop for haircosmetics and we're migrating from WooCommerce to Prestashop.
We offer many different product types. (Shampoo, Conditioner, Lotion, Gel, Hairdryer, Etc.)

Before we migrate, we would like to know what is the best way to categorize our products.
Should we categorize our products like this?

 

Home
- Care

- - Conditioner

- - Shampoo

- - Lotion

- Styling

- - Gel

- - Hairspray

- - Lotion

 

Or perhaps there is a better way to do this?

 

Note that in the example, we have two types of lotions, a Care Lotion and a Styling Lotion.
II'm new to Prestashop, so any help or advise is welcome.

Thank you.

Edited March 21, 2016 by HAIRWEBSHOP (see edit history)

[tuk66]

Your question is rather about marketing and business things, not PrestaShop. There is no one right answer.

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

Not to be rude, but I don't see how this is related to "marketing and business things".

Adding categories is obviously a part of Prestashop.

 

Before anyone starts, it's quite important to know how Prestashop intended products to be categorized, right?

Seeing how this is a general topic, I figured this might be the best place to get an answer.

[tuk66]

I meant every e-commerce platform can organize categories in a tree. How you design a category tree is purely a business issue, not a technical one.

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

I get what you mean, but I disagree about it being a business issue.

I think it's more of a functional issue because I believe that anyone who is setting up a Prestashop based webshop should know how the developers intended products to be categorized.

 

Should I categorize product purely using categories, or should I use an attribute called product type?

I'm asking for advise because I rather know this now than fix +3000 products in the future.

 

I believe this type of question should be allowed in a General Topics forum, as this is not a “Technical Support forum only” forum, right?