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title: Configuring product structure
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/creating-new-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

When [configuring your store](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores.md), you need to specify what [page](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages.md) is the main page of the store (in other words, where the [product tree](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products.md) starts). We also recommend defining a categorical structure for your products. This can help you later when you are, for example, [importing products](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-products/importing-products.md) to the system.

To configure product page structure:

1. [Specify the product tree main page.](#specifying-the-product-tree-main-page)
2. [Define the product structure.](#defining-the-product-structure)
3. [Consider limiting the products users can create.](#limiting-the-products-users-can-create)

## Specifying the product tree main page

When you specify the product tree main page, the **Products** application displays just products. To specify the main page of the tree:

1. Create a page in the **Pages** application:

   > **Tip:** Refer to [Creating new pages](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/creating-new-pages.md) for detailed information.

   1. Open the **Pages** application.
   2. Click **New** () to create a page.
   3. Select a page type from the list of available page types.
   4. Type a name of the page to the **Page name** field (for example _Products_).
   5. Click **Save**.The system creates a new page.

   ![A new page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-product-structure/created_new_page.png "A new page")

2. Set the main page of the product tree:

   1. Open the **Store configuration** if you want to set the product tree on the current site or open the **Multistore configuration** if you want to set the tree [globally](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md).

      > **Tip:** If you are not sure what to choose, see [Choosing site or global e-commerce configuration](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md). If you are not sure about specifics of configuring in these applications, see [Configuring e-commerce settings for a specific site or globally](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration/configuring-e-commerce-settings-for-a-specific-site-or-globally.md).
   2. On the **Store settings -> General** tab, configure the [Display tree of product sections](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce.md) field.
      1. If you work in the **Store configuration** application, clear the _Inherit from global settings_ field.
      2. Select the check box below to display the product section tree.

         > **Info:** Clear the field if you plan to use [stand-alone SKUs](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/managing-stand-alone-skus.md) and you do not want to place the products into any logical sections.
   3. Configure the [Products starting path](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce.md) field.
      1. If you work in the **Store configuration** application, clear the  _Inherit from global settings_  field.

         ![Clearing the inheriting property](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-product-structure/clearing_inheriting.png "Clearing the inheriting property")
      2. Click **Select** in the **Products starting path** field.
      3. In the **Select path** dialog, select the page created in the previous step and click **Select**.

         ![Selecting path of the product tree main page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-product-structure/selecting_path.png "Selecting path of the product tree main page")
   4. Configure the [Display products in sections tree](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce.md) field.
      1. If you work in the  **Store configuration**  application, clear the _Inherit from global settings_ field.
      2. Select the **Display products in sections tree**  check box to display products in the section tree.

         > **Info:** Clear the field if you do not want to see the products in the product tree in the **Products** application but only in the listing of each section.
   5. **Save** the store configuration.

The system sets the main page of the product tree. If you now open the **Products** application, you will see that the main page is the page you just selected.

![The main page of the Products application](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-product-structure/products_main_page.png "The main page of the Products application")

## Defining the product structure

Create the product structure to easily import products into the desired position in the product tree. Repeat the following steps to achieve the structure you want.

### Defining a new store section

To define a new store section:

1. Open the **Products** application.
2. Navigate to the section in which you want to create a new sub-section.
3. Click **New** ().
4. Select a page type from the list of available page types (the system skips this step if only one page type is allowed for the given part of the product tree).
5. Type a name for the new section.
6. Click **Save** (or **Save and create another** if you want to immediately create another section).

The system creates a new sub-section in the selected section. You can now [add](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/adding-new-products.md) or [link](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/linking-existing-products.md) products into the section, as well as create further sub-sections.

![The newly created section](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-product-structure/created_new_section.png "The newly created section")

## Limiting the products users can create

You can set page types that can be used for child pages based on the product tree structure of your online store.

> **Tip:** You can also set page types that can be used for child pages based on the used page type for the parent page. See more information in [Configuring product page types](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-product-page-types.md).

Use this setting, for example, when you want to set that only pages of the **Brewers** page type can be created in _/Store/Brewers_.

To limit child pages according to the product tree structure:

1. Open the **Page types** application.
2. Switch to the **Scopes** tab.
3. Click **New scope**.
4. In **This scope covers**, click **Select**.
   - This opens the **Select path** dialog.
5. Select the path which will be then limited, and click **Select**.
6. In **Page types** category, click **Add page types**.
   - This opens the **Select page types** dialog.
7. Select the page types which will be allowed under the specified page, and click **Select**.
8. (Optional) Enter the other properties according to your requirements.
9. Click **Save**.

On the specific page, users are now able to create only pages of the selected page type.

> **Tip:** For more detailed information about page type scopes, see [Limiting the pages users can create](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/managing-page-types/limiting-the-pages-users-can-create.md).