Collections

Open Products › Collections. The list shows each collection, how many products it has, how it fills itself and whether it is Published or Hidden. Search it, keep only Published, Hidden or Automatic ones, and change the order. Tick collections to Publish, Hide or Delete them together; deleting asks first and their products stay. Choose Add collection to make one.

A collection’s page

• Title and Description, in the same editor as a product’s description, with text colour, pictures from your files and tables (see [Product page](/docs/product-page/)).
• Custom data: your own fields on collections, made in Settings › Custom data.
• Image: click the empty tile to upload one or choose it from your files; a picture is never added by its address, so every picture is kept with your store. Give it Alt text for screen readers. Replace and Edit sit under it, and the red bin in its top right corner removes it; Edit also holds its framing (how it fills its tile). Edit opens the picture tool: Turn left and Turn right, a crop (Free, Square, 4:3 or 16:9; drag it or its corners) and Trim empty edges for a logo with space around it. Use this picture keeps the result as a new file in Content › Files, so the original stays; with nothing changed, Done closes it.
• Collection type, chosen when you create it:
  • Manual: you add products one by one. Search products to add opens a list where you can tick several at once, by title or SKU.
  • Automatic: products join by conditions you set, such as title, brand, tag, price, compare-at price, stock, variant title or SKU, matching all or any of them. A price takes a decimal comma or point (50,00 or 50.00). The list stays up to date by itself. Excluded products keeps chosen products out even when they match.
• Sort products: best selling, product title A–Z or Z–A, highest or lowest price, newest, oldest, or Manually (drag to order).
• Visible or Hidden in your store.
• Language version: with more than one language, write the title, description, address and the image’s Image alt text in each language. Left empty, your store shows the main language’s.
• Theme template: another layout for this collection.
• Search engine listing, at the foot, with its URL handle. Changing the handle keeps the old address working with a redirect. Without a meta description, the page uses the start of the collection’s description, as the preview shows.

The arrows at the top right move to the previous or next collection, in the list’s order by title.

More actions holds Duplicate collection, Create email campaign (a new email starting with up to 12 of its products, in your store’s order, for those who may write to customers) and Delete collection. Deleting asks first and names the discounts that use the collection: they no longer apply to it.

If the collection is changed elsewhere while you are typing (by the assistant or a colleague), your typing stays and a note says so: Apply saves your changes over the newer collection, and Load the latest collection shows the newer one and discards yours.