Managing large product catalogs in Shopify can be daunting, especially when stores use combined products to bypass the platform’s 99-variant limit. Merchants have to create parent/child relationships to display products effectively. But how can you merchandise and rank parent products meaningfully when the actual sales and inventory data are tied to child variants?

This is where Dynasort steps in, offering attribute, product, variant, analytics, and collection filters to overcome these challenges.

The Challenge: Parent/Child Relationship in Combined Products

One of the main hurdles for stores using combined products is the parent/child relationship. Merchants display the parent product on their storefront, but the variants sold belong to the child products. This presents a major obstacle when it comes to merchandising, as key attributes like sales, full-size runs, and inventory data are tied to the child variants, not the parent. Aggregating this data across all child products and applying it to the parent for ranking was no small feat.

Why Dynasort Developed These Filters

Before Dynasort introduced these filters, merchants with combined products couldn’t use the children’s attributes to merchandise the parent product meaningfully. This limitation resulted in suboptimal merchandising decisions, often requiring labor-intensive manual work to compensate. With our new system, all those hours are now automated.

How Merchants Use These Filters

Typically, Shopify Plus merchants with large catalogs benefit the most from Dynasort’s filtering system. These stores, often dealing with hundreds or even thousands of products, can now aggregate child product data into a single object for algorithmic merchandising. This allows merchants to save countless hours and apply sophisticated sorting and ranking to their collections based on real-time data from child variants.

Dynasort’s Role: Seamlessly Integrating Child Data for Powerful Merchandising

Dynasort plays a crucial role in transforming how these stores operate. By automatically aggregating child product data, Dynasort treats the parent product as if it were a normal Shopify product. This means all the attributes that were previously locked away—sales data, stock levels, reviews, and more—are now accessible to influence how products are ranked and displayed.

Our system ensures that these parent products are merchandised using the full power of child variant data, giving merchants smarter and more efficient control over their collections.

To enable Combined Product calculations for your store, reach out to us and we’ll get started – it’s included for free in our Pro and Enterprise plans.