{"id":1200,"date":"2017-04-05T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:51:32","slug":"how-do-i-delete-a-product-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/how-do-i-delete-a-product-category\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I delete a product category?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A product category may contain sub-categories and\/or products. If a category contains either of these, you will not be able to delete the category. You will first have to delete all of the sub-categories and products contained within before you can delete the category. <\/p>\n<p>To delete a product category, follow these steps: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in to the Onsight web console at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sales.onsightapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sales.onsightapp.com\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u2018Manage your data\u2019 from the left-hand side menu.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the &#8216;Product categories&#8217; menu item.<\/li>\n<li>You will see a list of all of your product categories. <\/li>\n<li>Tick the checkbox to the left of the product category you would like to delete and then click the &#8216;Delete&#8217; button at the top of the list.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm the deletion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A product category may contain sub-categories and\/or products. If a category contains either of these, you will not be able to delete the category. You will first have to delete all of the sub-categories and products contained within before you<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}