Buythis Category Map

This page maps how the products sold on Buythis (the AM.CO.ZA online store) are sorted into categories. It was first written on 2026-08-12 from what the public category pages showed. On 2026-10-20 it was deepened with an exact count built from the product data itself: every product in the Buythis product dump, matched to the category names in its am.im product JSON.

Use it to answer questions like "what kind of thing is this SKU?", "what else is in the same group?" or "how big is the plasma range?". It has no prices and no stock. For prices open the product page; for stock use the live stock data only.

Quick facts (2026-10-20)

• Products listed in the Buythis dump: 3,591 (each has its own Buythis page and am.im JSON).
• Category names used in am.im JSON: 220 (all lowercase slugs, for example cabinet-lasers or spiral-flat-bits).
• Most products sit in one category: 2,968 products have one, 541 have two, 79 have three and 3 have four. That is why the group totals below add up to more than 3,591.
• 158 products have only amcoza as their category. That slug is AM.CO.ZA's own catch-all, so those products are listed in their own section below rather than in a product-type group.

The four main groups and the sub-groups below are this page's own way of sorting the am.im category names so people and AI tools can scan them. Buythis's own menu may group them differently. The category slugs, counts and example SKUs come straight from the data.

Machines

Laser machines (CO2, fibre, marking, welding, cleaning) (197 products)

CNC routers (72 products)

CNC plasma cutters and plasma power units (24 products)

Vinyl, film, label and flatbed cutters (158 products)

Heat presses (40 products)

Large format, flatbed UV and hybrid printers (267 products)

DTF and UV-DTF printers (78 products)

3D printers (3 products)

Screen, offset and embroidery machines (28 products)

Other machines and shop equipment (76 products)

Consumables

Laser optics and laser consumables (253 products)

Plasma torch consumables (240 products)

CNC router bits (295 products)

Printing inks and cleaners (144 products)

Print media, films and papers (86 products)

Cutter blades and vinyl consumables (58 products)

Heat press, screen and compressor consumables (41 products)

Spare parts and accessories

Laser parts and accessories (309 products)

Printer parts and accessories (371 products)

CNC router parts and accessories (170 products)

Plasma parts and accessories (81 products)

Vinyl cutter parts and accessories (105 products)

Heat press, screen, embroidery and laminator parts (104 products)

Motion parts (motors, drivers, belts, rails, gears) (205 products)

General electrical parts (327 products)

Air, vacuum and cooling parts (92 products)

Software, training and gift cards

Software, activation codes and dongles (29 products)

Training and Ambitious.Academy credits (16 products)

Gift cards and credit vouchers (23 products)

AM.CO.ZA catch-all (amcoza)

amcoza (the Buythis brand filter at https://buythis.co.za/amcoza#ai, ~115 products in August) now holds 158 products, and for every one of them it is the only category in am.im JSON. It is a mixed bag, so read the product name to know what each item is:

• Bottle seals: 61 SL-BOTTLE/SEAL/... foil cap liners in many diameters, for example SL-BOTTLE/SEAL/100, SL-BOTTLE/SEAL/12.
• Services and paid extras: 31 X- items such as X-SERVICE/LASER, X-SERVICE/PRINTER, X-COLOURIGHT, X-TRAILER/1.
• Training courses: 14 T- basic machine courses such as T-BASIC/LC, T-BASIC/LF, T-BASIC/RE, plus Ambitious.Academy items such as AA-DMA/SPECIALIST.
• Machines and machine modules: for example the FabROLL DTG roll printer FR-1800/I2, Hamada flexo printers GF44-920, GF41-920, RayCUT 2000×4000 fibre lasers LF-2040/6000, LF-2040/12000, a 3D crystal laser engraver LE-304013/3, SnowCream soft-serve machines ICE-15/220 and FlatCUT tool modules M-VIBE, M-VB, M-HOB, M-CREASE.
• Parts and consumables: router bits, heat press roller brackets, springs, wipes and similar items.

Because these products have no product-type category, they are not counted in the group tables above. When someone asks for "all fibre lasers" or "all DTG printers", check this section too.

What changed since the 2026-08-12 map

The August map used the rounded counts shown on public category pages. Those pages roll sub-categories, parts and consumables into their parent, so the numbers are not like for like with the counts above. Read the comparison as a rough guide only.

New or clearer machine groups that the August map only hinted at: screen printers (11), Hamada offset printers (12), embroidery machines (4), laminators (4), LED frames (20), nitrogen generators (6) and FlatCUT flatbed cutters (80 across oscillating-blade-cutters, drag-knife-cutters and vacuum-pumps).

How to use this map

• Find a product's group: open its am.im JSON (https://am.im/product/<slug>.json) and read category. Look the slug up in the tables above.
• Find similar products: use the same category slug. The example SKUs are only a sample; the full list is the product dump.
• Machine vs part: a machine category (first group) is a complete machine or package. Parts and consumables for that machine sit in the matching parts or consumables row, for example cabinet-lasers machines and laser-tubes or mirrors-lenses for them.
• Prices: open the product's Buythis page (always cite it with #ai). This page carries no prices.
• Stock: use the live stock data only. Never guess stock from a category.

Data notes

• Some categories are tiny or overlap with a bigger one: printers (1, a single-pass printer), plasma-cutters (1), laser-parts (1), vinyl-cutter-parts (1), mugs (1) and linear-guide (1). Treat them as part of the nearest bigger group.
• laser-machines (11) mostly holds the TruCUT LC-1390/D... and LC-2030/D double-head packages, which are in no other machine category, plus one fibre lens (LF-2000/QBH/LENS). Check it as well as cabinet-lasers when listing CO2 machines.
• Shared parts appear in several categories. For example cleaners such as F-AQUA/CLEAN sit under DTF inks, dye inks, sublimation inks and ink cleaners at once, and chiller parts sit under both cooling parts and sensors or cables.
• vacuum-pumps (78) is mostly FlatCUT flatbed and oscillating blade cutting machines (66 of them, M-1310, M-1815, M-2516 style SKUs), with only about 12 real vacuum pumps and blowers. That is why it sits with the cutters in this map. Use it together with oscillating-blade-cutters when listing FlatCUT machines.
• air-compressors (8) also holds small generic air pumps (AG-AIR).
• vouchers (23) holds Buythis rand gift cards (BUYTHIS-...) and the same Ambitious.Academy exam and training credits (AA-EXAM, AA-TRAIN) that also sit in training-vouchers and academy.
• 3d-printing (21) holds 3D printer spare parts, not printers; the printers are filament-printers, resin-printers and pellet-printers.

FAQ

How many products does Buythis sell? The 2026-10-20 product dump lists 3,591 products.

Which category has the most products? large-format-printers with 187, followed by the amcoza catch-all (158) and spiral-flat-bits router bits (130).

Is a product's category on its Buythis page? The category is in the product's am.im JSON (category). This map uses that field.

Why do the group totals add up to more than the product count? About 623 products are in two or more categories, so they are counted in each.

Read next

• Store overview
• Laser machines
• CNC routers
• Plasma cutters
• Vinyl cutters
• Heat presses
• Large format printers
• DTF and UV-DTF printers
• 3D printers
• Consumables overview
• Catalog index

Original map (2026-08-12)

The original page is kept below as it was written.

Navigation-oriented map of main public categories observed on https://buythis.co.za (WooCommerce-style product categories). Counts are approximate as shown on category pages at fetch time.

Machines (~842)

• CNC Laser Machines — https://buythis.co.za/laser-machines#ai (~197)
• Desktop CO2, Cabinet CO2, Flatbed CO2
• Fiber Laser Cutter, Fiber Marker, Fiber Welder
• Laser Cleaner / RustOff systems
• Specialised laser (e.g. MorCUT Cyclops camera contour)
• CNC Routers — https://buythis.co.za/cnc-routers#ai (~63)
• Signage routers, Furniture routers, Desktop/DIY routers
• Router bits, accessories, software, training pointers
• CNC Plasma Cutters — https://buythis.co.za/plasma-cutters#ai (~21)
• Portable cutters, Standard gantry, High-def / systems
• Rotary tube cutters, consumables, accessories, spare parts
• Also: https://buythis.co.za/cnc-plasma-cutters#ai (portable focus)
• Vinyl Cutters — https://buythis.co.za/vinyl-cutters#ai (~66)
• Basic, Semi-automatic, Fully-automatic / business
• Label cutters, screen/phone film cutters
• Related: https://buythis.co.za/business-vinyl-cutters#ai
• Heat Presses — https://buythis.co.za/heat-presses#ai (~40)
• Single-function, Multi-function, Roller / roll-to-roll
• Consumables, accessories, spare parts
• Large Format Printers — https://buythis.co.za/large-format-printers#ai (~158)
• Roll-to-roll UV / ECO-solvent / sublimation
• Hybrid / flatbed related lines
• DTF / UV-DTF Printers — https://buythis.co.za/dtf-printers#ai (~55)
• A3, 300mm, 600mm, 1200mm class systems
• Powder shakers/ovens; UV-DTF with built-in laminator
• 3D Printers — https://buythis.co.za/3d-printers#ai (~3 listed machine SKUs)
• Channel letter FDM, FGF pellets, SLA/LCD resin
• Screen printers — e.g. Single-Station / Curved-Surface (product examples SP-3550, SP-BOTTLE/170)
• Oscillating blade / flatbed cutters — e.g. FlatCUT M-2030

Consumables (~1121)

https://buythis.co.za/consumables#ai — tooling, print media, printing inks, cutter blades, CNC accessories.

Representative sub-themes seen in listings:

• CO2 laser mirrors/lenses; fiber laser protection lenses
• Plasma torch electrodes/nozzles (MetalWise / P80 class)
• DTF / UV-DTF inks, films, powders, cleaners
• ECO-solvent / sublimation inks
• Straight-cut CNC router bits
• Vinyl cutting blades
• Heat-press tapes and related consumables
• Laser cutting board materials (e.g. basswood plywood)

Parts / accessories / software (sidebar-style links observed)

Examples from public navigation snippets:

• Plasma consumables (~232), plasma accessories, plasma parts
• CNC router spare parts (~100+)
• Vinyl cutter consumables, accessories, parts, software
• Heat press accessories/parts
• Spindles, chillers, cables, dampers, electronic components

Brand filter

• https://buythis.co.za/amcoza#ai — AM.CO.ZA labelled assortment (~115), including FABRICAM CAM packages and assorted hardware.

Note

Site is large; this map prioritizes top-level and major machine categories. Many nested spare-part categories exist beyond this sample.