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Fix Product Categories and Types

/fix-categories  Audits product category, product type and tags against Shopify's taxonomy and fixes mismatches after you approve.

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Add opens your Shopify admin with the skill prefilled; review it there and click Add. If nothing appears, use Copy and follow the steps below.

The skill

Suggested shortcut: /fix-categories
Audit my product categories, product types and tags.

## Steps
1. List active products with their category, product type, vendor and tags.
2. Flag products where the category is empty or does not match what the title and description describe, where product type is empty or inconsistent with similar products, and where tags are duplicated with different capitalisation.
3. For each flagged product, propose the most specific matching category from Shopify's standard taxonomy, a consistent product type, and a cleaned tag list. Where a product clearly belongs to a niche category that the store uses deliberately, keep it and note "kept on purpose".
4. Show the proposed changes as a table and ask for approval. Only after a clear yes, apply them. Do not change titles, prices or collections.

## Output
Counts of products checked and flagged, the change table, then "Apply these changes?"

When a product could fit two categories, choose the one used by the store's other products of the same type and say why.
How to add it to Sidekick
  1. Click Add to Sidekick above. Your Shopify admin opens with the skill ready to review. Click Add. Done.
  2. If the button does nothing in your store: click Copy skill, open Sidekick in your admin, type /, choose Create new skill, name the shortcut fix-categories, paste the text as the instructions, and save.
  3. To run it, type /fix-categories in Sidekick. Sidekick keeps up to 25 skills; manage yours from the skills menu.

What you get

Categories that match Shopify’s taxonomy, which improves Shop app placement, Google Shopping feeds and tax settings, and product types that filter cleanly in the admin.

When to use it

After bulk imports, when Google Merchant Center reports category disapprovals, or when Sidekick’s own automatic categorization got a niche product wrong.

Variations

  • “Do not touch tags” if your theme relies on specific tags.
  • “Only products with an empty category” for a quick first pass.

Limits

Some niche products have no perfect match in the taxonomy. Sidekick will pick the closest parent and say so; you can keep your own choice.

Status: Written for Sidekick but not yet run on a live store. Results may need a second prompt. Time saved: about 1 hour / cleanup.

Author: MerchantSkill · License: CC0, no attribution needed · Updated: 19 Sept 2026 · Raw markdown

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