Not natively. Shopify’s built-in collection sort orders are best selling, price, alphabetical, newest, oldest, and manual, and none of them can rank products by stock level. To sort by inventory quantity, days of inventory, or stock at a specific location, you need an app that reads inventory through Shopify’s APIs and rewrites the collection order on a schedule.
Why Would You Sort by Inventory?
Because every position you give a product is a bet, and stock decides whether the bet can pay off. Inventory-aware sorting lets you push sold-out products down so the first row always sells. It lets you demote nearly-gone items before they strand shoppers on a size-picker with one option left. And it lets you deliberately surface overstock, giving deep inventory the visibility to move before it turns into a markdown problem.
Which Inventory Signals Are Worth Using?
- Inventory quantity: the raw units available, useful for surfacing depth or demoting scarcity
- Days of inventory: how long current stock lasts at the current sales rate, covered in our days of inventory post
- Location-specific quantity: rank by stock at the warehouse or region that actually serves the shopper
- An out-of-stock buffer: treat nearly-gone as gone, explained in our inventory buffer post
How Does It Work in Practice?
Inventory rarely works alone. The useful pattern is a weighted recipe where stock signals shape a performance-driven order: sales velocity decides who deserves the top, inventory decides who can afford to be there. An app applies the computed order through the API on a schedule, with no theme changes, so restocks and sell-outs move products automatically instead of waiting for someone to notice.
Dynasort treats inventory as a first-class sorting signal. Install it from the Shopify App Store or see how it works.