Shopify Merchandising Quick Notes
Short, practical answers to the questions Shopify merchants ask about merchandising: how to sort collections, get search results in the right order, run recommendation rows you control, and prove a change worked. New notes publish regularly, grouped by topic below.
Sorting how-tos
Step-by-step answers for sorting Shopify collections by sales, inventory, price, reviews, metafields, and more.
- How to Change the Default Sort Order of a Shopify Collection
- How to Sort a Shopify Collection by Best Selling
- How to Push Sold-Out Products Down in Shopify Collections
- How to Sort Shopify Collections by Newest Products
- How to Sort a Shopify Collection by Sell-Through Rate
- How to Sort Shopify Collections by Sales Velocity
- How to Feature New Arrivals at the Top of a Collection
- How to Pin Products to the Top of a Shopify Collection
- How to Keep Seasonal Products Visible at the Right Time
Merchandising concepts explained
Plain-English definitions of the metrics and ideas behind collection merchandising.
- What Is Automated Merchandising for Shopify Stores?
- What Is a Collection Sort Order in Shopify Admin?
- What Is Sell-Through Rate and How Do You Use It?
- What Abandon Cart Rate Tells You About Your Collections
- Smart Collections vs Custom Collections in Shopify
- What Is a Merchandising Recipe in Collection Sorting?
- What Is Swatch Sorting (Product Option Sorting)?
- What Are Shopify Web Pixel Events and Why Do They Matter?
Troubleshooting and symptoms
Why your collection is behaving the way it is, and how to fix it.
Sort strategy by collection type
The right sorting approach for new arrivals, sale, seasonal, clearance, and other collection types.
- How Many Products Should a Shopify Collection Have?
- The Best Sort Order for a New Arrivals Collection
- The Best Sort Order for a Shopify Sale Collection
- How to Use Review Ratings in Shopify Collection Sorting
- How to Prep Your Shopify Collections for Black Friday
- How to Merchandise a Gift Guide Collection on Shopify
- How to Handle Preorder Products in Collection Sorting
- What Is an Out-of-Stock Inventory Buffer in Merchandising?
Measuring and testing
How to measure collection performance and prove that a sorting change worked.
Merchandising at scale
Running merchandising across many collections, teams, and client stores.
Variants, swatches and edge cases
Product options, combined listings, bundles, back in stock, and other tricky cases.
Search that sells
Getting Shopify search results in the right order: re-ranking, hiding sold-out items, the predictive dropdown, and measuring search conversion.
- How Do I Change the Order of Shopify Search Results?
- Can You Sort Shopify Search Results by Best Selling?
- How to Hide Products from Shopify Search (Sold Out or Any)
- What Is Search Re-Ranking on Shopify?
- Does Re-Ranking Search Results Hurt Relevance?
- How to Measure Whether Shopify Search Converts
- How to Customize the Shopify Search Results Page
- Can You Re-Rank Shopify’s Predictive Search Dropdown?
- How Far Down Do Shoppers Click in Search Results?
- What Is Search Merchandising?
Recommendations and post-purchase
Product recommendation rows you control, from the product page to the cart to the thank you and order status pages.
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