Create a Category

POST

api

v202604

company

categories

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.fluid.app/api/v202604/company/categories \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "category": {
    "title": "Summer Sale"
  }
}
'

{
  "status": 201,
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "7f3c2a90-1c2b-4d5e-9aaa-112233445566",
    "timestamp": "2026-07-15T12:34:56Z"
  },
  "category": {
    "id": 4821,
    "slug": "summer-sale",
    "title": "Summer Sale",
    "description": "Hand-picked categories for the July clearance.",
    "image_url": null,
    "canonical_url": "https://acme.fluid.app/home/categories/summer-sale",
    "images": null,
    "active": true,
    "status": "scheduled",
    "publish_at": "2026-07-01T08:00:00Z",
    "seo": {
      "id": 9215,
      "title": "Summer Sale — Up to 40% Off",
      "description": "Shop the July clearance event before it ends.",
      "image_url": "https://ik.imagekit.io/fluidapp/tr:w-1200,h-630,c-maintain_ratio,fo-auto,f-auto,q-80/seo/9215.png",
      "block_crawler": false
    },
    "metafields": [
      {
        "namespace": "custom",
        "key": "theme_accent",
        "value": "#f5a623",
        "value_type": "single_line_text_field",
        "description": null,
        "created_at": "2026-06-23T14:00:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-06-23T14:00:00Z",
        "locked": false
      }
    ],
    "countries": [
      "GB",
      "US"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ],
    "parent_id": null,
    "position": 1,
    "source_type": "product",
    "has_children": false,
    "custom_slug": true
  }
}

{
  "message": "Invalid credentials."
}

{
  "error": "Not authorized."
}

{
  "error": {
    "message": "<string>",
    "details": {}
  },
  "status": 123,
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "<string>",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "pagination": {
      "cursor": "<string>",
      "limit": 25,
      "prev_cursor": "<string>",
      "next_cursor": "<string>"
    }
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer token authentication. Accepts company-admin tokens with storefront.view for read operations and storefront.update for writes and scan triggers (legacy per-resource grants like categories.update / products.view / etc. are still accepted during the migration), required on every company operation. Storefront public operations under /api/v202604/{resource} and /api/v202604/{resource}/{slug} are unauthenticated (security: []).

Query Parameters

lang

string

Response locale. ISO code (e.g. fr, de). When omitted, responds in the company's default locale. On the public surface, falls back to en for any translated field missing in the requested locale.

Example:

"fr"

Body

application/json

Response

The created Category.

Shared success envelope for list / show / create / update responses: the resource payload is returned alongside a top-level integer status and meta. Composed onto each resource response via allOf.

status

integer

required

Example:

200

category

object

required

Authenticated (company-surface) Category read shape: the public CategoryBase plus custom_slug, which is admin metadata never rendered on the public surface.

Show child attributes

Company Categories index

Company Category show

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.fluid.app/api/v202604/company/categories \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "category": {
    "title": "Summer Sale"
  }
}
'

{
  "status": 201,
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "7f3c2a90-1c2b-4d5e-9aaa-112233445566",
    "timestamp": "2026-07-15T12:34:56Z"
  },
  "category": {
    "id": 4821,
    "slug": "summer-sale",
    "title": "Summer Sale",
    "description": "Hand-picked categories for the July clearance.",
    "image_url": null,
    "canonical_url": "https://acme.fluid.app/home/categories/summer-sale",
    "images": null,
    "active": true,
    "status": "scheduled",
    "publish_at": "2026-07-01T08:00:00Z",
    "seo": {
      "id": 9215,
      "title": "Summer Sale — Up to 40% Off",
      "description": "Shop the July clearance event before it ends.",
      "image_url": "https://ik.imagekit.io/fluidapp/tr:w-1200,h-630,c-maintain_ratio,fo-auto,f-auto,q-80/seo/9215.png",
      "block_crawler": false
    },
    "metafields": [
      {
        "namespace": "custom",
        "key": "theme_accent",
        "value": "#f5a623",
        "value_type": "single_line_text_field",
        "description": null,
        "created_at": "2026-06-23T14:00:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-06-23T14:00:00Z",
        "locked": false
      }
    ],
    "countries": [
      "GB",
      "US"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ],
    "parent_id": null,
    "position": 1,
    "source_type": "product",
    "has_children": false,
    "custom_slug": true
  }
}

{
  "message": "Invalid credentials."
}

{
  "error": "Not authorized."
}

{
  "error": {
    "message": "<string>",
    "details": {}
  },
  "status": 123,
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "<string>",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "pagination": {
      "cursor": "<string>",
      "limit": 25,
      "prev_cursor": "<string>",
      "next_cursor": "<string>"
    }
  }
}

Overview

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Create a Category

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Body

Response