What are the consequences if Pinduoduo’s main category is wrong? How many categories can you focus on?

When opening a Pinduoduo store, you list your products on the shelves yourself. When filling in the information for the listed products, some sellers choose the wrong Pinduoduo main category. What is the impact of this?

What are the consequences if Pinduoduo’s main category is wrong? How many categories can you focus on?

If a merchant makes the wrong choice of main category, the product will be removed from the shelves. After the product is taken off the shelves, the merchants have to edit and put it back on the shelves again, which wastes a lot of time and is not worth it.

It is recommended that merchants who are not familiar with the categories should check the backend first. Generally speaking, store owners who often open stores on other platforms have fixed categories. If you are a newcomer, you can first determine the products you want to sell, and then go to the backend to check the relevant categories. If what you want to sell is useless, it is recommended to change to a common one.

What are the consequences if Pinduoduo’s main category is wrong?

How many categories can you focus on?

A store can only choose one main category and can only change it once under certain conditions. (For example, if the sales volume is 0, modify the main category).

If you choose a personal store or a regular corporate store, you can choose one of the three categories: "Medical and Health, Virtual Goods, and Regular Goods". If you choose regular goods, you can sell goods in the categories of clothing and luggage, sports and outdoor, fresh fruits and vegetables, food and health, beauty and personal care, mother and baby toys, home life, digital appliances, and home textiles and furniture.

If it is other types of stores other than personal stores and ordinary stores, you can choose one of the eleven categories: "apparel and luggage, sports and outdoor, fruits and vegetables, food and health, beauty and personal care, mother and baby toys, home life, digital appliances, home textiles and furniture, medicine and health, and virtual goods."

If the conditions are met, these main categories can be changed, but the medical and health category can only be changed from medical and health to other, and cannot be changed from other to medical and health. Other categories can be changed between each other.

Choosing the wrong category on Pinduoduo will affect the weight and face the risk of being removed from the shelves. Therefore, sellers should not rush to put products on the shelves for sale before figuring out the category of the product. This will not do any good to the product.