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title: "Product Settings"
description: "Manage the categories of your product catalog"
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**Manage product categories**

Found under **Administration → Workspace Settings → Product Settings**

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/product-settings-01.png)

The **Product Settings** section is where you manage your company's product categories. Here you define how your products and services are structured—for example, as *Hardware*, *Software*, *Services*, or *Subscriptions*. Clear categorization makes it easier to assign items in proposals, invoices, and projects.

### Where are product categories used?

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/product-settings-02.gif)

Navigate to **Administration → Product Catalog.**

The products created there can be assigned to the product categories.

Go to the [Product Catalog](/administration/product-catalog)

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## Add a product category

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/product-settings-03.png)

Use the **"Add Category"** button to create a new category.

1. Select an **icon** to highlight the category visually.
2. Enter a **name** and **description**.
3. Click **Save** to create the category.

Example:

**Name:** Hardware

**Description:** All hardware products that we sell

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## Multilingual labels

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/product-settings-04.png)

In Leadtime, categories can be maintained in multiple languages.

In the **"Translations"** tab, enter names and descriptions in additional languages, such as English and German.

These translations appear automatically wherever multilingual interfaces or documents are used.

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## Manage existing categories

Existing categories can be edited, deleted, or moved at any time:

- pencil **Edit:** Opens the dialog for changing the name, description, and icon.
- trashcan **Delete:** Permanently removes the category.
- ☰ **Change order:** Categories can be reordered using drag and drop.

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## Restore default categories

If you no longer need your customizations, use **"Restore defaults"** to reactivate the original categories provided by Leadtime. This quickly gives you a clean starting point again.