Every category one click away in the navbar
Surface your full eCommerce category tree as a dynamic, auto-updating dropdown menu in your website header — the navigation pattern every major retail site uses, with zero manual menu maintenance.
The problem
Odoo's default website theme has no built-in way to show your product categories in the main navigation. Shoppers land on your homepage unable to see the breadth of your catalog or jump straight to the department they want — buried categories mean extra clicks, higher bounce rates, and lost sales.
The solution
eCommerce Category Navbar adds a live, auto-updating “Shop by Category” dropdown to your navbar the moment you install it. Categories are pulled from your catalog in real time, so the menu never needs manual editing again.
Everything you need to surface your catalog
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Shop by Category Navbar
A dynamic dropdown menu is added to your main website navbar on install, built live from your eCommerce categories — no static links to hand-edit.
Auto-Updating Menu
The navbar reflects category additions, renames, and removals automatically. Change your catalog and the menu updates itself — no re-editing required.
Show / Hide Per Category
A single Show in Navbar toggle on each category controls its visibility, so internal or irrelevant categories stay out of public navigation without deleting configuration.
Custom Category Ordering
Categories appear in the order set by their existing sequence field, so your priority departments lead the menu.
Multi-Website Support
Restrict any category to specific websites and choose a different root category per site, so each storefront in a multi-website instance shows its own navigation.
Configurable Menu Depth
Choose how many sub-category levels appear in the dropdown, from top-level categories only to full sub-category drill-down, right from Website Settings.
Product Count Badges
Optionally display a live product-count badge next to each category in the menu, so shoppers see catalog depth before they click.
On-Page Snippet
Drop the same category menu into any page — homepage, landing pages, or footers — using the Category Navbar snippet in the website builder.
Works With Any Theme
The menu renders through Odoo's standard submenu template, so it displays correctly across header themes with no per-theme code required.
How it works
Install the app
Add eCommerce Category Navbar to your Odoo Website/eCommerce instance — no extra configuration needed to get started.
Menu appears automatically
A Shop by Category dropdown is added to your main navbar immediately, built live from your existing product categories.
Fine-tune visibility & order
Toggle Show in Navbar per category, reorder with sequence, and set menu depth or product counts in Website Settings.
Place it anywhere
Use the Category Navbar snippet to add the same menu to any page via the website builder.
Frequently asked
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Yes. The menu renders through Odoo's standard submenu template that every header theme already calls, so it displays correctly without any per-theme code or configuration.
Buy it on the Odoo App Store
Purchase, download and install directly from the official Odoo Apps Store — you'll always get the latest supported build.
eCommerce Category Navbar
A Shop by Category dropdown in the website navbar that updates itself as the catalog changes, with per-category visibility, custom ordering, product counts and an on-page snippet.
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