All products need to go into subcategories to be viewed.
If you do put products into the main category though, whilst not visible to the customer, they can be useful as you can put products into those sections which are intended to be sold with other items and not seen by the customers on their own.
For example:
I'm doing a promotion on a Plasma TV with бё500 worth of free home cinema accessories. Because I have put the products on for free, I don't want them to be seen and have to give them to just anyone!
So I have put them in one of the main category sections so that X-Cart can pull them in from this category when setting up the 'extra product options' fields for the Plasma TV, in order for it to display the free products as a series of 'options' in a dropdown menu to the customer.
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