# Activity Categories (/docs/activities/categories)
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 [#where-to-find-it]
Go to **Dashboard → Checkout Settings → Categories**.
Creating a category [#creating-a-category]
1. Open the **Categories** tab and click **Add Category**.
2. 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. |
3. Under **Activities in this Category**, tick the activities to include and drag them
into the order you want.
4. 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 [#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 [#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 [#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/`: 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]
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.