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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Operating
Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
Management Center for HCL Commerce
The Management Center for HCL Commerce, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, Buyer Administrator, Customer Service Supervisor and others).
Catalogs tool
Use the Catalogs tool in Management Center to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
Working with catalogs
The Category Manager or Product Manager manages the catalog hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting catalogs for stores. There are two types of catalogs: master catalogs and sales catalogs.
Managing sales catalogs
The Category Manager manages the category hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting categories in sales catalogs.
Managing rule-based sales categories
The Category Manager or Product Manager can use the Catalogs tool to create, manage, and delete rule-based sales categories within a sales catalog.
Deleting rule-based sales categories
You can delete or remove a rule-based sales category from a sales catalog or sales category when you no longer need the category.

Deleting rule-based sales categories

You can delete or remove a rule-based sales category from a sales catalog or sales category when you no longer need the category.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
Select your store from the Select Store list
From the explorer filter, select Sales Catalog Categories.

From the explorer view, right-click the rule-based sales category that you want to delete or remove. Click Delete.

You are provided with the following choices: Delete, Remove, or Cancel.

Option	Description
Delete	To delete the category from the sales catalog, select Delete.
Remove	To delete the category from the parent sales catalog or category, but keep the category in other parent sales categories, select Remove.