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# Service categories

Use Categories to create and manage the service groupings that organise your bookable services on the Booking Page.

| 📍 **Where to find this:** Booking System → Categories

## ✅ What you can do

* Add single or group service categories
* Edit and activate/deactivate categories
* Enable or disable categories on the Booking Page
* Link directly to the Booking Page for a specific category

## 🧭 Open Categories

1. Click **Booking System** → **Categories**.
* The categories list opens, showing all active categories.
* Search by category name using the **search bar**.
* Filter by **Active/Inactive** using the dropdown.

![Categories List](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/image_12c7crz.png =650x350)

## ➕ Add a category

1. Click **Booking System** → **Categories**.
2. Click the **+Add** button in the top-right corner.
3. Enter the **Category Name**.
4. Select the **Type of Booking**:
* **Single** — creates a single service category
* **Group** — creates a group service category
5. Click **Submit**.

![Add Category](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/image_bbnd8p.png =650x245)

## ⚙️ Manage categories

From the categories list you can:

| Action | How to do it |
| ---- |
| **Edit** | Click the Edit icon to update the category name or type |
| **Activate/Inactivate** | Click the toggle to enable or disable a category |
| **Share** | Click the Share icon to open the Booking Page filtered to that category |
| **Enable/Disable on portal** | Toggle on/off to show or hide the category on the Booking Page |

![Category Actions](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/image_qdmqth.png =650x350)

| 💡 Categories are assigned when adding a service. See [Bookable services](https://help.meridiq.com/en/article/bookable-services-s6391i/).