Delivery category Tags

This article describes the feature Category tags in the Delivery Checkout.

What are Category tags?

Category tags are unique identifiers of Delivery Category.

Category tags give a Merchant the possibility to tag a Delivery Category to be able to identify that specific category when it is used or selected by a consumer in Checkout.
A Delivery category can have one or many Category tags.
Category tags can be chosen freely and are not be visible in Delivery Checkout interface.

The purpose of Category tags

Category tags give Merchant's side systems the ability to adapt the Checkout based on receiving the tags on the Delivery Checkout session from the Ingrid SIW API.

Typical use cases are:

Setting different payment option due to selection of a special delivery method
Some delivery methods should not work with credit payment options
Any case where the delivery option needs to impact the Merchant Checkout page in any way.

Note: Category tags is not the same as category label. Category labels are visual indicators than can be set to detail the Delivery Category for the consumer.

Set up a Category Tag

Steps:

From your Ingrid Merchant Platform admin go to Delivery Checkout > Regions > Delivery Categories
In the Delivery category settings scroll down to "Category tags" and click Add new
Enter a tag name and save it.
Now the tag is "assigned" to a Delivery category,

Example of tags visible on the SIW session

"tags": [ 
           { "name": "express"
           
           }, 
          
           { "name": "req-mobileno" 
           
           } 
 
        ]