Activity Categories
Group your activities into browsable, linkable sections on the booking page.
Categories let you organize your activities into sections on your booking page — for example Watercraft, Guided Tours, or Lessons — each with its own photo, heading, and description. Customers see category cards instead of one long list, and every category gets its own shareable link.
Categories are optional. If you don't create any, your booking page shows the flat activity list exactly as before — nothing changes until you opt in.
Where to find it
Go to Dashboard → Checkout Settings → Categories.
Creating a category
- Open the Categories tab and click Add Category.
- Fill in the details:
| Field | Shown to customers? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Internal Name | No | A label just for you in the dashboard. Required and unique per location. |
| Display Title | Yes | The heading customers see. Falls back to the internal name if left blank. |
| Tagline | Yes | A short line under the title. |
| Custom Text | Yes | A longer description shown on the category page. |
| Price Label | Yes | A display-only label such as from $89. |
| Display Photo | Yes | The category card / page hero image. |
| Featured Activity | Yes | Supplies the hero image and price when the category has no photo/label of its own. |
| Published | — | Turn off to hide the category from the booking page. |
- Under Activities in this Category, tick the activities to include and drag them into the order you want.
- Save.
The Price Label is display only — it never changes what a customer is actually charged. The real price always comes from the activity they book.
Only published activities can be added to a category or set as the featured activity. If you later unpublish an activity, it drops out of its categories automatically.
Multiple categories per activity
An activity can belong to several categories at once — for example a "Sunset Cruise" could appear under both Tours and Featured. Its position is set independently in each category.
Subcategories
You can nest one level deep: a top-level category can contain subcategories.
- Assign a Parent Category when creating or editing a category to make it a subcategory.
- A top-level category can hold both its own activities and subcategories.
- Nesting is one level only — a subcategory can't have its own subcategories.
- Deleting a parent promotes its subcategories to top-level; their activities are never lost.
- If you unpublish a parent category, its subcategories are hidden too.
Reorder categories and subcategories with the up/down arrows; subcategories reorder within their parent.
How customers see it
- Booking page — top-level categories appear as cards, followed by any activities that aren't in a category.
- Category page — clicking a card opens
/category/<id>: the hero, the category's activities, and its subcategories. Subcategory pages show a breadcrumb back to the parent. - Search by date — when the day-search is enabled, available activities are grouped under their category headings.
Category links are stable and shareable — you can link straight to a category from your website or marketing emails, and the link keeps working even if you later reorganize your categories.
Deleting a category
Deleting a category removes the grouping only — the activities themselves are not deleted and remain bookable. If the category had subcategories, those become top-level categories.