Category Trees and Industry Taxonomies

Businesses are regularly asked to organise the same products several ways at once: for the website, for internal reporting, and against an industry standard. In Pimberly, the taxonomy defines the product structure and which attributes surface, while category trees are assigned independently, so a business’s own trees can sit alongside industry standards like ACES and PIES against the same records.

With Pimberly’s category trees, you can:

  • Keep taxonomy (product structure and attributes) separate from category trees (how products are grouped)
  • Hold multiple category trees against the same records, such as one for your website and another for internal reporting
  • Run industry standards like ACES and PIES alongside your own category trees
  • Define category trees in Pimberly or import them, and maintain your own alongside industry-standard ones
  • Structure a product once and present it differently to each audience that needs it

See how it works in the video below: