Quick Notes The Cold-Start Problem: Why Best-Selling Ignores New Products October 3, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Shopify’s best selling sort ranks products by past sales, so a new product with zero sales history starts at the bottom, gets little visibility, and therefore makes few sales. That feedback loop is the cold-start problem. The fix is a blended sort that weights product newness alongside sales, giving new items a temporary visibility window […] Read more »
Quick Notes How Many Recommended Products Should You Show? October 1, 2026 by Wade Fewer than most stores show. Post-purchase, three or four products read as a confident suggestion. On product and cart pages, one clean row sized to the device works better than a grid. And every row needs a minimum count, at least two, below which it hides itself entirely rather than render sparse. Fewer, Better A […] Read more »
Quick Notes What Is Inventory-Aware Merchandising for Shopify? September 30, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Inventory-aware merchandising means using stock levels as a first-class input when ordering products in a collection. Instead of ranking purely by sales or recency, it pushes sold-out and nearly sold-out products down, surfaces overstocked items you need to move, and keeps your best positions reserved for products shoppers can actually buy in their size or […] Read more »
Quick Notes What Is Sales Velocity in Ecommerce and How Is It Used? September 28, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Sales velocity in ecommerce is the rate at which a product sells, usually expressed as units sold per day or per week over a recent window such as 7, 30, or 90 days. It tells you what is selling right now, which makes it one of the most useful signals for ranking products in a […] Read more »
Quick Notes How to Use the Shopify Order Status Page for Repeat Sales September 26, 2026 by Wade The order status page is one of the most revisited pages in your store: customers reopen it repeatedly between purchase and delivery to check progress. Adding a recommendation row there, seeded by what they ordered, turns those check-ins into merchandising impressions you already paid for. The Page Customers Keep Reopening Most storefront pages get one […] Read more »
Quick Notes How to Keep Certain Products Fixed While Sorting the Rest September 25, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Shopify’s native sort orders are all or nothing: either you sort the whole collection manually, or an automatic rule controls every position. To keep specific products fixed while the rest sort automatically, use a merchandising app with pinning. Pinned products hold their exact positions, and a sorting recipe arranges everything else around them. When Does […] Read more »
Quick Notes How to Sort Shopify Collections by Newest Products September 23, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade To sort a Shopify collection by newest products, open the collection in your Shopify admin, set the Sort dropdown in the Products section to Newest, and save. Shopify orders products by creation date, newest first. That is the right default for a New Arrivals collection, but in category collections you usually want newness blended with […] Read more »
Quick Notes Can You Add Product Recommendations to the Shopify Thank You Page? September 21, 2026 / July 16, 2026 by Wade Yes. Shopify’s checkout editor lets you add app blocks to the Thank you page, and a post-purchase recommendation block puts a product row there, seeded by the items in the order. The customer just told you exactly what they like; the row suggests what pairs with it, and never re-sells what they already bought. Why […] Read more »
Quick Notes Does Variant Order Affect Conversion on Shopify Product Pages? September 20, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Yes, variant order can affect conversion because the first variant is usually the default selection. It is preselected when the page loads, its image typically leads the gallery, and it is the version shoppers judge the product by. If the first swatch is an unpopular color or a sold-out size, you make every visitor do […] Read more »
Quick Notes How Agencies Manage Merchandising Across Client Stores September 18, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Agencies manage merchandising across client stores by standardizing on reusable sorting recipes instead of store-by-store manual work. A recipe (for example, sales velocity weighted with inventory and margin) encodes the strategy once and can be recreated on each client store, tuned to that catalog. Automated re-sorting keeps every store current, and collection analytics give the […] Read more »