Once you have set up your Group Categories in EZ Process Pro, you will now need to map them in your automatically maintained Ashley feed. This article will walk you through the process of doing so.
Like EZ Process Pro, Ashley has Group Categories attached to the groups that are coming through its feed. However, since these Group Categories are standardized in the Ashley system, your system will likely have a different naming convention than Ashley. You will need to manually connect Ashley's Group Categories to your Group Categories to tell your system how to use what Ashley is sending over.
To do so, go to Getting Started > Manufacturer Area > Automatically Maintained, and click Assign Categories
From the drop-down menu select Ashley
When Ashley is selected the screen will refresh and the categories will be displayed below.
On the left side are the Group Categories that Ashley maintains. These cannot be changed by anyone except Ashley themselves. These categories come through the data feed along with the rest of the information about their products.
On the right side are the EZ Process Pro categories. You are able to set these up, edit them, and create as many as you like. All the Group Categories you create will show up in the dropdown menu.
If the dropdown menu says Unassigned, then that Ashley Group Category has not been mapped to one of your categories, and Ashley groups associated with that Ashley category will not show up when you search by category (which you may do for sales, reports, and on your website).
Your goal is to map all of the Unassigned categories, but if you aren't sure about any of them you can always leave them uncategorized for the time being. You can also come back to edit any of the mappings if you decide another Group Category works better.
When you are done mapping the categories together, make sure to hit the Submit button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.