Your eBay Shop categories are the "aisles" or "shelves" that enable you to organise and display your listings to buyers.

• Your Shop categories don't need to match eBay's categories.
• You can create as many as 300 Shop categories and subcategories with up to three levels of categories; for example, a category named Sporting Goods, can have two additional subcategories:
  Sporting Goods > Golf > Balls
• Another category, named "Other items", will appear for listings that you did not assign to a Shop category.
• Your category names can be up to 29 characters long.
• Whenever you create a new listing, you'll be able to assign it to one of your Shop categories, in addition to eBay's categories.
• You can add, rename, move, and delete Shop categories at any time.
• A category will not appear in your Shop if there are no listings in it.
• You can move listings from one category to another.


Note: Listings that you created before you opened your Shop automatically appear in the "Other items" Shop category, but you can edit those listings to change your category selection.

• Put yourself in a buyer's position: create a set of categories that help buyers quickly find the types of items that you have to offer without overwhelming them. Your can organise your listings according to brand, type of item, price levels, and so forth. For example, if your Shop primarily sells laptop computers, you could include categories such as:
  Laptops > Laptop Cases > Samsonite
• Be sure that you have enough listings to make each category meaningful to a buyer. If you only have a few listings in each category, you probably have too many categories and might be creating a poor buying experience.
• List your items in two categories -a main Shop category and a secondary Shop category. There is no charge for listing in two Shop categories.
• Consider creating special categories that attract buyers' attention, such as "50% Off" or "Featured Items".