how many products/categories allowed?

Hi, just a quick clarifying question... how many categories and products are we allowed? Does "unlimited category depth " mean unlimited?
I know its a dumb question but i like to be clear on things!
thanks :smile:

Yes - essentially unlimited

But think this out as each level of depth adds more clicks to get to the meat of your shop and too many might not be conducive to customers staying

Doesn't depth mean what it is supposed to literally mean ? As I understand it, category depth means the hierarchical subcategory levels that a category can have. In other words, each category can have subcategory_level1 subcategories, each subcategory_level1 subcategory has subcategory_level2 subcategories, each subcategory_level2 subcategory has subcategory_level3 subcategories and continues similarly to subcategory_levelx subcategories, which finally contain the products. I understand that in this case the cart becomes more complicated but at least the user has the option to implement this setup, i.e. he/she can select how many levels is the depth of the subcategories. Is this the case with zen cart, or is it that category depth means just the number of categories that can be created...? (i.e. ony 3 levels depts>> categories, product types, products)

Yes, you can have unlimited category depth as you describe, but this is usually not a good idea. Take Kobra's advice and try to limit the depth to no more than necessary.

And how does one implement more levels of subcategories in zen cart? The user guide chapter refers to only 3 levels: Categories >> Product Types >> Products. Is there a module made for this implementation ? (I searched through, in the forum but didnt find anything...) (I am a php developer. In the past I have created an e-commerce site from scratch, without using any ready cart, just by starting the code from a book (php & mysql web development) and had created 5 levels of product categorization, i.e. general categories>>subcategories1>>subcategories2>>subcategories3>>final products.)

And how does one implement more levels of subcategories in zen cart?
You just keep adding - NOTE: a category can have only one of the following and NOT both

Additional sub categories
Products

So if there are non products you will see the add category but not if there are products

Too deep a structure is a turn-off to a potential customer

Categories >> Product Types >> Products
does not have anything to do with levels of subcategories. They are three different kinds of things: arrangement of products, kinds of products, and the individual products.

Yes, I have got it all that... but is there a way to make a site with categories>>subcategories>>product types>> products (i.e. 4 levels of product organization), or more (categories>>subcategories>>sub-subcategories>>product types>> products, which is 5 levels of product organization). From what I've seen in the manual we can only work with 3 levels (categories>>product types>>final products) and I cannot see any light in the admin configuration interface related to such a possibility. Excuse me if I have missed something, but I still haven't cleared it out...

Add your top level category, then add your next level of sub-categories, then your next and your next - You are thinking about this too hard.

ok, I got it, thanks for the help...:smile:

You have unlimited Categories as well as unlimited Products. zen cart is the best :clap: