> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shoply.gg/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a category > Adds a category, with the products that go in it. A store holds up to 150. Needs the `categories.write` permission (Change Categories). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /stores/{storeId}/categories openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Shoply API version: '1' description: >- Everything a store's own server can do with a secret API key: its catalogue, orders, customers, marketing, finance and the rest of what the dashboard does. And the Customer API, which a buyer's own device asks with a token of theirs. servers: - url: https://api.shoply.gg/v1 security: - apiKey: [] tags: - name: API key - name: Store - name: Domain - name: Payment methods - name: Analytics - name: Storefronts - name: Storefront code - name: Payment Routing - name: Custom payment methods - name: Products - name: Product pictures - name: Stock - name: Categories - name: Upsells - name: Subscriptions - name: Orders - name: Invoices - name: Reviews - name: Coupons - name: Coupon categories - name: Coupon pop-up - name: Sales - name: Blog - name: Search settings - name: Redirects - name: Sitemap - name: Cart Recovery - name: Email Marketing - name: Email Templates - name: Customers - name: Affiliates - name: Support Tickets - name: Blacklist - name: Fraud protection - name: Disputes - name: Finance - name: Tax - name: Expenses - name: Expense setup - name: API requests - name: Webhook endpoints - name: Webhook deliveries - name: Customer API paths: /stores/{storeId}/categories: post: tags: - Categories summary: Create a category description: >- Adds a category, with the products that go in it. A store holds up to 150. Needs the `categories.write` permission (Change Categories). operationId: categories.create parameters: - name: storeId in: path required: true description: >- The store's ID. A key reaches the store it was made in: `GET /key` answers which. schema: type: string - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey' requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: name: type: string description: The category's name. example: Software slug: type: string description: >- The last part of its address on the storefront. Left out, it is made from the name. description: type: string description: What the category's page says under its name. visibility: type: string description: >- `public` is listed on the storefront. `unlisted` is reached by its link. `private` is not shown. enum: - public - unlisted - private default: public isPopular: type: boolean description: Whether themes that feature a category may feature this one. default: false productIds: type: array description: The products in it, in the order the category lists them. items: type: string seoTitle: type: string description: >- The category's own title in search results, up to 70 characters. Empty is its name. seoDescription: type: string description: >- Its own description in search results, up to 200 characters. Empty is its description. required: - name responses: '201': description: It worked. content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: success: type: boolean message: nullable: true code: nullable: true data: type: object properties: id: type: string storeId: type: string name: type: string slug: type: string visibility: type: string isPopular: type: boolean description: type: string seoTitle: type: string seoDescription: type: string image: type: string imageUrl: nullable: true sort: type: integer productIds: type: - array - object productCount: type: integer dateCreated: type: string updatedAt: type: string example: success: true message: null code: null data: id: e31dbb6f-c007-4e28-b0f8-49c4b432cfec storeId: 743d82fb-6aad-44bb-ab00-d54c4b0eecb7 name: Software slug: software visibility: public isPopular: false description: Licences for desktop apps. seoTitle: '' seoDescription: '' image: '' imageUrl: null sort: 0 productIds: [] productCount: 0 dateCreated: '2026-10-22T16:20:18Z' updatedAt: '2026-10-22T16:20:18.000Z' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/NoKey' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotAllowed' '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound' '422': $ref: '#/components/responses/Refused' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooMany' x-codeSamples: - lang: javascript label: Node.js source: | import Shoply from "@shoplygg/node"; const shoply = new Shoply({ apiKey: process.env.SHOPLY_API_KEY }); const result = await shoply.categories.create({ name: "Software", }); - lang: php label: PHP source: | getenv('SHOPLY_API_KEY')]); $result = $shoply->categories->create([ 'name' => 'Software', ]); - lang: python label: Python source: | import shoply client = shoply.Client() # reads SHOPLY_API_KEY result = client.categories.create(name="Software") components: parameters: IdempotencyKey: name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: false description: >- A word of your own for this one change, up to 180 letters, digits, dots, dashes, underscores and colons. Sent again with the same key, the request is not carried out twice: the first answer comes back, with `Idempotent-Replay: true`. schema: type: string responses: NoKey: description: >- No API key was sent, or the one sent is not a live key: `api_key_required`, `invalid_api_key`. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' NotAllowed: description: >- The key is real and may not do this: `missing_scope` (with `requiredScope`), `ip_not_allowed`, `account_unavailable`, or `dashboard_only` for something only a person in the dashboard may do. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' NotFound: description: >- There is no such thing in this store: `not_found`. A store that is not the key's own is answered the same way. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' Refused: description: >- The request was understood and not carried out. `validation_failed` says what is wrong with each field under `errors`; other codes are the route's own. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' TooMany: description: >- The key has used up its budget for now: `rate_limited`. `Retry-After` says how many seconds to wait. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refusal' schemas: Refusal: type: object properties: success: type: boolean example: false message: type: string description: What is wrong, in words for a person. code: type: string description: What is wrong, as a word that does not change. data: nullable: true errors: type: object description: >- For `validation_failed`: what is wrong with each field, by the field's name. additionalProperties: type: string required: - success - message - code securitySchemes: apiKey: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- A secret API key, made under Developers in the dashboard: `Authorization: Bearer shoply_sk_...` ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.