Quick Notes How to Measure Shopify Collection Performance July 27, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Measure Shopify collection performance with four metrics, tracked per collection: collection conversion rate (how many viewers of the collection bought from it), collection view rate (the share of sessions that reach it), abandon cart rate, and product position effectiveness (whether your best converters sit near the top). Shopify’s built-in reports are product-centric, so collection-level numbers […] Read more »
Quick Notes How to Prep Your Shopify Collections for Black Friday July 25, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade To prep Shopify collections for Black Friday, do four things before the sale starts: replace stale manual sort orders with a rule you can defend, pin your hero deals to the top, make sorting inventory aware so sold-out products drop automatically, and shorten your re-sort cadence so collection pages keep up with how fast stock […] Read more »
Quick Notes Can You Sort Shopify Search Results by Best Selling? July 23, 2026 by Wade Not natively. Shopify’s storefront search orders results by relevance, and the sort options shoppers see (usually price) do not include best selling. A search re-ranking app closes the gap: it keeps Shopify’s matching, then re-orders each result set by units sold over a window you choose, so bestsellers lead every query. Why Bestsellers-First Works in […] Read more »
News Nobody holds a 5.0 across 400 reviews by accident: my honest review of Craftshift’s Rubik apps July 22, 2026 by Wade Rubik Variant Images and Rubik Combined Listings, reviewed by a fellow app founder who met the Craftshift team at DotDev in Toronto. Read more »
Quick Notes How Many Products Should a Shopify Collection Have? July 22, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade There is no single right number of products for a Shopify collection, but smaller usually beats bigger. A collection should hold roughly as many products as a shopper will realistically browse, and its first rows must be relevant. Our analysis of more than 1,100 Shopify collections found that oversized collections create choice overload, where extra […] Read more »
Quick Notes Why Are Sold-Out Products Showing First in My Shopify Collection? July 20, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Sold-out products show first in a Shopify collection for one of three reasons: the collection uses a manual sort order that froze before the items sold out, the sort order (such as price low to high) happens to favor them, or nothing in your setup considers inventory at all. The fix is inventory-aware sorting that […] Read more »
Quick Notes How Do I Change the Order of Shopify Search Results? July 19, 2026 by Wade Shopify orders storefront search results by its own relevance score, and native controls over that order are limited. The free Search & Discovery app lets you boost individual products for specific queries by hand. To order every search by sales, inventory, margin, or conversion data, you need a re-ranking app that scores results with rules […] Read more »
Quick Notes Smart Collections vs Custom Collections in Shopify July 17, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Shopify offers two collection types. Smart collections (also called automated collections) add products automatically based on rules you define, such as tag, vendor, or price. Custom collections (manual collections) only contain products you add by hand. Smart collections scale better for large catalogs, while custom collections give you exact control over membership. Both types support […] Read more »
Quick Notes What Is Automated Merchandising for Shopify Stores? July 15, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Automated merchandising for Shopify is the use of software to decide which products appear where in your store, especially the order of products in collections, based on rules and live data instead of manual drag and drop. The software re-sorts collections on a schedule using signals like sales, inventory, margin, and shopper behavior, so product […] Read more »
Feature Releases Features Deployed News Shopify Dynasort now ranks your search, recommendations, and post-purchase. Not just your collections. July 15, 2026 / July 15, 2026 by Wade For four years, Dynasort has done one job well: putting the right products at the top of your collections. Today that job gets three times bigger. Starting now, Dynasort ranks your products everywhere shoppers decide what to click next: Search re-ranking trail hats ↑ ranked up Shopify finds the matches. Dynasort orders them by what […] Read more »
