Change Hikashop layout and behaviour per category

I have a site with Hikashop that sells courses and physical items. I want to customize Courses a bit by adding a 'Starting Date' custom field and change 'Add to cart' button to 'Book it Now!'

My first tought was to create a copy of current template, apply it to one product listing category page and use Views to customize the output in the copied template but I'd like to know if there were a simpler way to achieve it.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

In the category edition page in backend, you can select the layout to use for the product detail page.
So select different layout for the different categories, for example show_default for the virtual products and show_reversed for the other ones, or create a new view file in your template folder.

Then you will indeed have to edit the views to have the desired layout.

I set the category parameter as instructed, but products keep displaying default layout. The hardest part is solved at least, and I can override the layout manually one product at a time but I'd like to enforce different layouts per category as it were supposed to be.

Anyway, as said before, your advice solved the hardest part. Thank you!