🌍 Global Standard: Our open-source, standardized product taxonomy establishes a universal language for product classification. Comprehensive and already empowering merchants on Shopify.
👩🏼💻 Integration Friendly: With a stable structure and diverse formats our taxonomy is designed for effortless integration into any system.
🚀 Industry Benchmark: Spanning 22 essential verticals, our taxonomy encompasses categories, attributes, and values, all thoughtfully integrated within Shopify and numerous marketplaces.
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Our taxonomy is an open-source comprehensive, global standard for product classification. It's a universal language that empowers merchants to categorize their products. Spanning 22 essential verticals, our taxonomy encompasses categories, attributes, and values, all thoughtfully integrated within Shopify and numerous marketplaces.
What's next? ⏭️ More attributes and values as we work to make this truly comprehensive.
This repository is the home of Shopify's Standard Product Taxonomy. It houses the source-of-truth data, the distribution files for implementation, and the source code that makes this all sing.
We've structured it to be as user-friendly as possible, whether you're looking to integrate the taxonomy into your own system, suggest changes, or delve into how it's developed and maintained.
Dive straight into dist/ to find the files you need and integrate this taxonomy into your system.
We're working on a variety of formats to make it easy to integrate with your systems. Today we have txt and json formats, and we're working on more. If you have a specific format you'd like to see, please open an issue and let us know!
🔵 Note: While we are in preview we are not actively seeking PRs.
Everything comes from the source-of-truth in data/. This is where you can submit PRs to change the taxonomy itself.
Dive deep by hopping straight into dev/ to see how the taxonomy is generated and maintained. This is where the magic happens.
For more information, see the dev readme
We'll manage releases on Github and generally follow semver. You can always find the current version in VERSION.
Shopify's Product Taxonomy is released under the MIT License. So go ahead, explore, play, and build something awesome!