Subcategories are displaying inconsistently on square online.

[Mayasand]

In the image below we have a category called “Breakfast Foods”. This category has no items.  It has two subcategories which are displayed as “Burritos and Bowls” and “Other Breakfast”

 

if i add items to the breakfast foods category, the sub categories no longer display.  It only show the category items.  Is there a way to display both subcategories and items when a category contains both?

[Goldneye]

HI, Breakfast Foods is now a placeholder for the subcategories.  If you add to Breakfast Foods then it is a regular category.  It can not be both.

[Mayasand]

Thank you for your reply.  A category should be a container.  Any container may contain objects or other containers.  Any query of the container’s contents should return a list of both objects and containers.

It should not be an either or situation where it can only display objects or other containers.

In our business, we have such a diversity of products that we have to group certain objects into multiple subcategories.  Otherwise our categories would be overly cumbersome with 100’s of items.  But we need a way to display both objects and containers within our larger categories.  Thanks.