Update Storefront Category Settings | BigCommerce Developer Center

Updates category settings.

Channel ID can be used as a query parameter for updating channel-specific settings. If omitted, you will interact with the global settings only.
null should be supplied to delete overrides per given channel and to inherit values from global level. Partial updates are not supported and all settings should be supplied with null value in order to delete overrides per channel.

Updates category settings. - Channel ID can be used as a query parameter for updating channel-specific settings. If omitted, you will interact with the global settings only. - `null` should be supplied to delete overrides per given channel and to inherit values from global level. Partial updates are not supported and all settings should be supplied with `null` value in order to delete overrides per channel.

Authentication

X-Auth-Tokenstring

OAuth scopes

UI Name	Permission	Parameter
Information & Settings	modify	`store_v2_information`
Information & Settings	read-only	`store_v2_information_read_only`

NOTE: Analytics endpoints require the Content (store_v2_content and store_v2_content_read_only) OAuth scope.

Authentication header

Header	Argument	Description
`X-Auth-Token`	`access_token`	For more about API accounts that generate `access_token`s, see our Guide to API Accounts.

### OAuth scopes | UI Name | Permission | Parameter | |:--------|:-----------|:----------| | Information & Settings | modify | `store_v2_information` | | Information & Settings | read-only | `store_v2_information_read_only` | NOTE: Analytics endpoints require the Content (`store_v2_content` and `store_v2_content_read_only`) OAuth scope. ### Authentication header | Header | Argument | Description | |:-------|:---------|:------------| | `X-Auth-Token` | `access_token` | For more about API accounts that generate `access_token`s, see our [Guide to API Accounts](/developer/docs/overview/api-accounts#api-accounts). | ### Further reading For example requests and more information about authenticating BigCommerce APIs, see [Authentication and Example Requests](/developer/docs/overview/api-accounts#x-auth-token-header-example-requests). For more about BigCommerce OAuth scopes, see our [Guide to API Accounts](/developer/docs/overview/api-accounts#oauth-scopes). For a list of API status codes, see [API Status Codes](/developer/api-reference/rest/overview#rest-http-status-codes).

Query parameters

channel_idintegerOptional

Channel ID to use for channel-specific settings. If omitted, you will interact with the global settings only.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

category_tree_depthintegerOptional1-8

default_product_sortenumOptionalDefaults to bestselling

The available sorts for PLP pages.

listing_modeenumOptional

Allowed values:

Response

dataobject

metaobject

Response metadata.

Errors

422

Unprocessable Entity Error

OAuth scopes

UI Name	Permission	Parameter
Information & Settings	modify	`store_v2_information`
Information & Settings	read-only	`store_v2_information_read_only`

NOTE: Analytics endpoints require the Content (store_v2_content and store_v2_content_read_only) OAuth scope.

Authentication header

Header	Argument	Description
`X-Auth-Token`	`access_token`	For more about API accounts that generate `access_token`s, see our Guide to API Accounts.

1	using RestSharp;
2
3	var client = new RestClient("https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/store_hash/v3/settings/storefront/category");
4	var request = new RestRequest(Method.PUT);
5	request.AddHeader("X-Auth-Token", "<apiKey>");
6	request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
7	request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
8	IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

1	{
2	"data": {
3	"category_tree_depth": 1,
4	"default_product_sort": "bestselling",
5	"listing_mode": "current_category_only"
6	},
7	"meta": {}
8	}