Categories enable you to present products in an easy to locate manner in the storefront, define the default attributes associated with a product that is assigned to the category, and organize the products in the Business Manager for your own ease of management.
You can assign products to more than one category. The categories to which you assign products can belong to the same catalog as the product or to a different catalog. For example, a product you define in catalog A can be assigned to a category that has been defined in catalog B.
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