Create Category

POST 
/api/categories

Create a new product category.

Required scope: products:write

Grant this scope to your token under Settings → Developer → Personal Access Tokens.

Authentication: Requires Bearer token.

Request body fields:

• name (required) — category name; must be unique within the same parent
• parent_id (optional) — parent category ID; null creates a root category
• attribute_groups (optional) — array of attribute group IDs to link
• attributes (optional) — array of attribute IDs to link

Requires permission: categories.create

Request

Responses

201

Created

Response Headers

Content-Type

401

Unauthenticated — the bearer token is missing, revoked, expired, or malformed. Never retry automatically; fix the credential. See the Errors guide.

403

Forbidden — the token lacks a required scope, the endpoint is not available to API tokens, or the user behind the token lacks the permission. A human must adjust the token scopes or user permissions; do not retry.

422

Unprocessable Entity

Response Headers

Content-Type

429

Rate limited — platform limit is 1,000 requests/min; individual tokens may carry lower limits. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying. See the Rate Limits guide.