Shopify's Standard Product Taxonomy (v0.0.1 - PREVIEW)

Shopify's public product taxonomy serves as an open-source, standardized, and global classification of products sold on Shopify. Composed of product categories, attributes, and attribute values, the taxonomy is leveraged across Shopify and is integrated with numerous marketplaces. To learn more, visit our help docs; to request early access, fill out the form here.

Browse Shopify's product taxonomy

Supported Verticals

Vertical	Status
Apparel & Accessories	✅
Food, Beverages, & Tobacco	✅
Home & Garden	✅
Sporting Goods	✅
Furniture	Coming soon [next]
Health & Beauty	Coming soon [next]
Animals & Pet supplies	Coming soon
Electronics	Coming soon
Media	Coming soon
Arts & Entertainmen	Coming soon
Vehicles & parts	Coming soon
Toys & games	Coming soon
Luggage & bags	Coming soon
Software	Coming soon
Cameras & optics	Coming soon
Hardware	Coming soon
Baby & toddler	Coming soon
Business & industrial	Coming soon
Office supplies	Coming soon
Services	Coming soon

As new verticals are made available in the coming weeks, they will be added to this repository.

Organization

This github repository includes both the source code for defining the taxonomy, as well as distribution files for consuming the taxonomy. We welcome public input to evolve and adjust this taxonomy. Requested changes will be reviewed and considered for subsequent version updates.

Distribution files

Used to consume the taxonomy. These are packaged in multiple formats for easy parsing and review.

Current formats:

• txt
• json

Coming soon:

• jsonl
• parquet

Source & Data files

Used to manage and update the taxonomy itself, along with necessary files to generate published formats reliably. When proposing adjustments to Shopify's product taxonomy, submit changes to these files.

# Helper commands for generation
bin/

# Source-code for generation itself
src/

# Source-of-truth for the taxonomy
# Use these files to submit PRs for changes to the taxonomy
data/
  categories/
    aa_apparel_accessories.yml
    ...

Releases

Releases will be managed on Github and will generally follow semver. The current version can always be found in VERSION.

License

Shopify's Product Taxonomy is released under the MIT License.