List service categories is a WordPress ability from LatePoint — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →List service categories
Read-onlyLists all service categories defined in LatePoint.
Requires the LatePoint plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (the WordPress Abilities API is only available from 6.9 onward). All abilities also require the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' master toggle to be enabled; write abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' setting, and destructive abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_delete' setting. Each ability further requires the current user to hold the matching LatePoint capability (e.g. 'booking__view', 'customer__edit'), and some abilities also verify the user is allowed to act on that specific record.
What it does
This ability returns every service category configured in LatePoint, ordered by display order and then name, with each entry's ID and name. It takes no input parameters and is useful for discovering valid category_id values to use with other service abilities.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"What service categories do I have set up?"
Returns
Returns an object with a `categories` array, each entry containing the category's id and name.
Permission
The current user must have LatePoint's 'service__view' capability, and the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' Abilities API setting must be enabled.
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