---
title: "Business category special request"
description: "Category list and detail operations can use params=products to include products related to each returned category."
canonical: https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/guides/category-special-request/
---

# Business category special request

Category list and detail operations can use `params=products` to include products related to each returned category.

```text
GET https://api.ordering.co/v400/en/YOUR_PROJECT/business/41/categories?params=products
```

```json
{
  "error": false,
  "result": [
    {
      "id": 248,
      "business_id": 41,
      "name": "Example category",
      "enabled": true,
      "products": [
        {
          "id": 1292,
          "name": "Example product",
          "price": 3,
          "category_id": 248,
          "enabled": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

This is a sanitized illustrative shape, not a complete schema. Product visibility, nested categories, mode, fields, and relations remain operation-specific. See the operation guide for the selected category operation.