You are here: Start -> Settings -> Manage Categories
When you open your store, you will find the category overview on the right. Here you can see all categories from your product catalog.
How to create a category you will learn here.
In the first view all main categories are displayed below each other. With a click on the plus sign in front of the category name you can display the subcategories. If no plus sign is displayed, no further subcategories are available.
With a click on "On/Off" you can directly activate or deactivate certain categories or even whole branches of your category tree. A deactivated category will no longer be offered on any marketing channel.
You can see which articles are affected by the deactivation on the right side of the view.
Here, the articles assigned to the deactivated categories are automatically deactivated.
Attention: If a main category is deactivated, all associated subcategories will also be deactivated!
Good to know: Do you want to deactivate the category only for certain channels? You can do that in the channel management. You can find more information here.