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Category Mapping – How to Map Store Category with Channel Category?

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What is Category Mapping?

Your WooCommerce store categories may not match the category names used by Google, Facebook, or other shopping channels. Category Mapping lets you link each of your store categories to the correct channel category — so buyers can find your products accurately on those platforms.

How to Map Store Category with Merchant Category?

Watch a complete walkthrough before following the steps below.

Step 1: Go to CTX Feed → Category Mapping and click Add New Mapping.

ctx feed Category Mapping

Step 2: Select a Merchant (e.g., Google Shopping, Facebook) and enter a Mapping Name to identify this mapping later.

google shopping category mapping

Step 3: For each of your store categories, type the matching channel category name in the corresponding field. If a child category has no mapping, it will inherit the mapping from its parent category.

Download the official category taxonomy files to find the right category names:

Google Categories:
English (US): Plain text (.txt) | Excel sheet (.xls)

Facebook Categories:
English (US): Plain text (.txt) | Spreadsheet (.csv)

Step 4: Click Save Mapping to store your mapping.


Step 5: Go to CTX Feed → Make Feed. Before creating a new feed, click Clear Cache (located on the right side of the Content Settings section). This ensures your new mapping appears in the attribute dropdown.

click Clear Cache 

⚠️ Important: Always clear the cache after creating or updating a category mapping. Without this step, the new mapping will not appear in the attribute list.

Step 6: In the feed attribute mapping table, find the category attribute row and select your saved mapping from the Store Attributes dropdown under the Category Mapping Attributes group.

Category Mapping Attributes 

✅ Your feed will now send the correct channel category names for each of your WooCommerce product categories.

➤ How To Manage Multiple Category Mapping in a Multi-lingual WooCommerce Store

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  3. hi- I’ve created a category map and cleared my cache, I don’t have a group header in the drop down called “Category Mapping Attributes” as shown in the video. Not sure what else to do here. Thanks

    1. Hi! The clear cache button here should add the newly added attribute to the dropdown list under category mapping. But, if you are not getting it even after clearing the cache, please, contact our support team from here. Thank you!

  4. Good evening,

    When mapping the categories and choosing Google Shopping, I can’t find any Google category that is related to my categories.
    Specifically, I have a bookstore. The categories are: history, philosophy, biographies, theology, etc.
    Nothing similar with suggestions of Merchant Category. Should I skip this categories step and create my feed without it?
    Thank you in advance.

    1. Hi!
      If your item titles and descriptions are correct, you can skip the Google product category attribute, as google will assign categories automatically based on the title and description. To know more about Google Product Category attribute, please, follow this link.

      1. Hi Marcos,

        No, you don’t need to deactivate and activate the plugin. Once a new category mapping is created, you need to Clear the cache from here to find the newly created Category Mapping attribute on the attribute list.

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