This feature enhances the eCommerce product category navigation to deliver a smoother and more intuitive shopping experience. It helps customers easily explore the full catalog hierarchy by providing visual cues and interactive controls for category expansion.
Key Benefits
- Adds clear expansion icons to categories that have subcategories, making it visually obvious that more options are available.
- Allows folding and unfolding of categories, enabling customers to quickly navigate through large category trees without scrolling through irrelevant items.
- Improves user experience by reducing clicks and simplifying navigation for complex catalogs.
- Fully integrates with Odoo's website and eCommerce modules without disrupting existing functionality.
User Workflow
- Go to the website shop and open the product categories menu.
- Categories with subcategories will now display an expansion icon.
- Click the icon to expand and view the subcategories.
- Click again to collapse the category view as needed for a cleaner interface.
Modules Impacted
- website
- website_sale
This enhancement is particularly beneficial for stores with multi-level product categories. By introducing intuitive expand/collapse behavior, it reduces navigation friction and improves the customer’s ability to quickly find the products they need.
eCommerce Category Expansion