--- title: How are Products Organized and Categorized on ReCapturit? description: ReCapturit uses the CSI MasterFormat, a Standard used in the Building Industry as an organizational and categorization system to ensure a clear understanding of the building materials and products being bought and sold. --- [Skip to content](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/how-are-products-organized-and-categorized-on-recapturit#main-content) English Show submenu for translations ![Letterhead Logo-Banner.jpg\]](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Letterhead%20%20Logo-Banner.jpg?height=40&name=Letterhead%20%20Logo-Banner.jpg) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations - Go to recapturit.com Go to recapturit.com Welcome to the ReCapturit Knowledge Base. Type your question below, so we can search for the answer. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Help Center](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge?hsLang=en) 2. 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This is true for commercial, industrial, and residential buildings.  - Manufacturers use it to ensure that their products are consistent with these standards, meeting requirements such as size, weight, or material types. - This enables construction companies to know what to expect and how to use the materials they purchase. This coding system works as a middleman, helping one industry make things clear for the other. Recapturit is using the MasterFormat as a way to ensure clear communication and effective teamwork between our Sellers and Buyers.  - When Sellers load their products into their Seller Stores, they use the MasterFormat to categorize and describe each one. - When Buyers are looking on ReCapturit for products and materials, they can browse categories from the home page. - As ReCapturit grows, and the industry evolves, more and more Building Industry Professionals (Construction Companies, Architects, Remodelers, Building Contractors, Renovators) will seek used and surplus building materials for their projects. With the help of the MasterFormat organizational base, and our amazing selling partners, we will be able to build out a system to make it just as easy and efficient to locate specific #recaptured items, in needed quantities, as it is to order new...and have those items delivered directly to the job site at the best possible time for the project! For more information on the MasterFormat - check out this article! [What is the CSI MasterFormat & What’s its Purpose?](https://www.csinstallers.com/csi-masterformat/) \------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's what MasterFormat Categories look like on our homepage. (See the Masonry numbering) -  ![](https://support.recapturit.com/hubfs/image-png.png) Here is an example of how a specific product is categorized, using the MasterFormat -  ![](https://support.recapturit.com/hubfs/image-png-1.png) We believe that using this industry standard coding system will make buying and selling on ReCapturit easy and efficient for Building Industry Professionals, as well as provide a simple and robust organizational system for all of ReCapturit’s users.  - [Shopping on ReCapturit](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shopping-on-recapturit?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Products](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shopping-on-recapturit?hsLang=en#products) - [Selling on ReCapturit](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/selling-on-recapturit?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Payments](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/selling-on-recapturit?hsLang=en#payments) - [Shipping](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shipping?hsLang=en#main-content) - [ShipStation](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shipping?hsLang=en#shipstation) - [uShip](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shipping?hsLang=en#uship) - [Shipping for Buyers](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shipping?hsLang=en#shipping-for-buyers) - [Shipping for Sellers](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/shipping?hsLang=en#shipping-for-sellers) - [Product Guidelines](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/product-guidelines?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Product Input](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/product-guidelines?hsLang=en#product-input) - [Photo Suggestions](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/product-guidelines?hsLang=en#photo-suggestions) - [Product Categorization](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/product-guidelines?hsLang=en#product-categorization) - [Your Account](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/your-account?hsLang=en) - [Terms and Conditions](https://support.recapturit.com/knowledge/terms-and-conditions?hsLang=en) [![Chill listening crop-3](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Letterhead%20%20Logo-Banner.jpg?width=39&height=24&name=Letterhead%20%20Logo-Banner.jpg "Chill listening crop-3")](https://www.recapturit.com/?hsLang=en) recapturit.com Help Center Copyright © 2026, ReCapturit - www.ReCapturit.com