@stepphenwolff - any chance you can elaborate? We have asked our provider and the response was to say we had to do it manually! I could also do with checking on the defects / patch scenario you mention...

mizpah: We encountered a serious defect where after we created the commerce category, items would start to disappear and the category was totally frozen in the SMT. We had to install a patch to fix this, but have found ourselves completely rebuilding the commerce categories every few days - the patch didn’t seem to work. Hopefully this will be fixed over the next few weeks.