diff --git a/app/views/api/product_categories/_product_category.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/product_categories/_product_category.json.jbuilder
index 6cdef711b..641a4d027 100644
--- a/app/views/api/product_categories/_product_category.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/api/product_categories/_product_category.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-json.extract! product_category, :id, :name, :slug, :parent_id, :position, :products_count
+json.extract! product_category, :id, :name, :slug, :parent_id, :position
+json.products_count product_category.try(:products_count)