Getting Started
For owners
Who is Padoq?
Creating Accounts
How to Submit Your App
How to Submit Your App to the Google Play Store
Google Play Console: How to push an update live
App Store Connect: How to push an update live
How to Submit Your App to the App Store
Design Requirements
App Listing Design Requirements
Setting up Test Users
The Super Admin Dashboard
Padoq forms
Setting up a merchant account
Managing group members
For users
Using Padoq
Sign Up
Home
Groups
Types of Groups
Creating Groups
Adding tags to Groups
Update your Profile in a Group
Leaving a Group
Managing and deleting your group
What is a Padoq (or Group)?
Group Privacy Settings
Group Tile Menus
Posts
Creating Posts
Types of Posts
Edit or Delete Posts
Share a Post
Boost a Post
Report a Post
Creating a Poll
Creating Payment Posts
Filtering and Sorting Posts
Copy a Post
Trigger Posts
Creating Events
Posting to Select Recipients
Post settings
Private Chat
Calendars
My Account
Your notifications and activity
Padoq Features
3rd Party Tools
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Bespoke Integrations
Firebase
Setting up a SendGrid account
Third Party Tools - End User data collection
FAQ
Help! It won't let me log in
Device Requirements
How do I Report an Issue?
What platforms is the app available on?
Best Practices
Technical content
The Padoq platform
User registration (onboarding)
User profile
How do roles work?
App menus
Primary app menu
Explore
The homefeed
Padoq feed and menus
Post types
The pinboard
Creating a padoq (group)
Padoq stereotypes
Managing a padoq
What are Padoq categories?
Auto-enrolment
Verified by Padoq
Notifications and activity
Super Admin Dashboard - Issue reports
Create and Manage Forms (Information Collection)
Bookings
Privileges
Moderation
Glossary | A guide to how we talk
Table of Contents
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- What are Padoq categories?
What are Padoq categories?
Updated
by Kate Santo
All padoqs (also known as groups) have categories assigned to them. Categories are a useful way to group padoqs together. Find out more about categories in this guide.
See for yourself
- You can download the iOS or Android app on your phone to follow this journey along. And you can also log in or sign up to the web app here
- You can also follow along by checking out the images or code snippets in this guide
- And you will find the relevant endpoints linked and explained in this guide, but the full API is documented in Swagger UI
Categories
Categories
are a property in the padoq structure. They group padoqs together and make it easier for users to find relevant content. The explore functionality uses categories heavily. Find out more about this below.
"categories": [
"East side",
"North east"
]
Categories are managed by the app's admin. They will have permission to create, update and delete categories via the createPadoqCategory, updatePadoqCategory and deletePadoqCategory endpoints.
Users with standard permissions can't create, update or delete categories.
Categories during padoq creation
When a user creates a padoq, the getPadoqCategories endpoint is called. It returns the categories in the app and their IDs.
{
"categories": [
{
"name": "Property",
"id": "2c2e08e3-59d7-4b8e-afa9-65458eca7fd3"
},
{
"name": "Hospitality",
"id": "2c2e08e3-59d7-4b8e-afa9-65458eca7fd3"
},
{
"name": "Memberships",
"id": "2c2e08e3-59d7-4b8e-afa9-65458eca7fd3"
},
{
"name": "Retail",
"id": "2c2e08e3-59d7-4b8e-afa9-65458eca7fd3"
},
{
"name": "Workforce",
"id": "2c2e08e3-59d7-4b8e-afa9-65458eca7fd3"
}
]
}
In the web UI, these categories would display like this:

Once the user selects the relevant categories from those available and finishes the creation process, the padoq is created with one or more categories assigned to it.
Categories in Explore
When the user goes to Explore, the getPadoqs endpoint is called. This endpoint can take 4 parameters, and category
is one of them.
When Explore is launched, the getPadoqCategories is called. It returns all categories available in the app, which are used to filter and organise results on this page. If the user taps on one of the categories presented, that category is passed to the getPadoqs endpoint via that category
parameter. So the results returned in that case will be the padoqs that match that category.