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 Search
A shopper who searches has told you what they want. What they have not told you is which of your forty matching products deserves their attention first. Sales data answers that question better than text relevance can: the products other shoppers chose are the most likely fit for this one. And position matters more than most merchants assume. In one large catalog we analyzed, nearly half of 188,000 search result clicks landed past position three, so the order shapes what sells well beyond the first row.
How to Set It Up
With Dynasort you build a search recipe, the same weighted-rule format used for collection sorting:
- Weight sales over the window that fits your catalog, from the last 7 days to all time.
- Blend in stock so a bestseller that just sold out does not keep the top spot.
- Keep relevance as the tie-breaker, so products with equal scores fall back to Shopify’s order and a new store starts sensible.
You can preview any query in the recipe editor before activating, so “jacket” ranks exactly how you expect before shoppers ever see it.
Dynasort puts your bestsellers at the top of every search. Install it from the Shopify App Store or read the search re-ranking docs.