Organising your shop with sections

Create your own shop sections like Bouquets or Gifts, assign items to them, reorder them, and understand how they differ from platform categories and group your storefront.

Shop sections let you arrange your storefront into your own headings — "Bouquets", "Plants", "Gifts", "Sympathy" — whatever fits what you sell. They're how your shop grid is organised for buyers.

Sections vs platform categories

These are two different things, and it helps to keep them straight:

Platform categories are the fixed, LocalFor.Me-wide taxonomy (chosen on each item, 1–5 subcategories). They power search and discovery across the whole platform — everyone shopping for "Flowers" finds relevant businesses. You don't create these.
Shop sections are yours alone. They only organise your storefront and never affect platform search. You create, name and reorder them.

Creating a section

Go to Manage, then open Shop sections.
Under Add a section, type a name (for example Bouquets).
Optionally add a one-line description (for example "Hand-tied, made fresh daily") — it appears under the section heading on your storefront.
Click Add section.

It appears in the list below straight away.

Renaming and reordering

To rename a section or change its description, edit the text boxes on its row and click Save.
The order of your sections in this list is the order buyers see on your storefront. Reorder them to control how your shop reads top to bottom.

Assigning an item to a section

There are two ways to put an item into a section:

From the item editor — open an item, choose Edit, and pick a section from the Shop section dropdown (labelled your shop layout). Save.
From the Items list — use the inline section dropdown next to an item to move it without opening the editor.

Leaving the section blank (or choosing Other) means the item isn't tied to any section.

How the storefront groups your items

Your public shop builds its grid like this:

A toggle at the top of the screen — "Use my own sections to organise my storefront" — controls this. It's on by default. Turn it off to group your storefront by platform category instead, even though you've made sections (your sections are kept, just not used for the layout).
If you've created at least one section (and the toggle is on), items are grouped under those section headings, in your chosen order, with your section description (if set) under each heading. Anything not assigned to a section falls into an Other group at the end.
With more than one section, buyers also get a section navigation bar that sticks to the top as they scroll, highlights the section they're reading, and jumps to any section in one tap.
If you've created no sections at all (or turned the toggle off), items are grouped automatically by their platform category instead — a sensible default so a small shop still looks tidy.
Empty sections are hidden, so buyers never see a heading with nothing under it.

Tip: You don't need sections to start selling. With only a handful of products, leaving everything in Other is perfectly fine.

Deleting a section

Click the bin icon next to a section. Deleting is safe: the section is hidden, and any items in it simply move to Other — your items are never deleted with the section. Because the link is kept behind the scenes, items can be re-homed cleanly later.