Examples of automated collections

Review these examples to get ideas on how you can use automated collections for your particular needs.

Example: Create a sale collection

You can create an automated collection to feature products that have a sale price. To make your collection show only the products that are on sale, you can set a condition for the collection to include products that have a Compare at price. To learn more about using Compare at prices to put products on sale, see Setting sale prices.

Steps:

Desktop

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products > Collections.

2. Click Add a collection.

3. Enter a title and description for your sale collection.

4. In the Collection type section, click Automated.

5. Select all conditions.

6. In the first drop-down list, select Compare at price.

7. In the second drop-down list, select is not empty.

Note

If a product, or any of its variants, has any value in the Compare at price field, then it is categorized as is not empty. This includes if the value is 0.

1. Set any other conditions that you want.

2. Click Save collection.

3. Add a link to your collection in your online store navigation so that customers can find and view the collection.

iPhone

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > Collections.
2. Tap the + button.
3. Enter a title and description for the collection.
4. Enable Automatically select products.
5. In the Conditions section, tap Add condition.
6. Select Compare at price.
7. Select is not empty.

Note

If a product, or any of its variants, has any value in the Compare at price field, then it is categorized as is not empty. This includes if the value is 0.

1. Tap Save.
2. Add a link to your collection in your online store navigation so that customers can find and view the collection.

Android

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > Collections.
2. Tap the + button.
3. Enter a title and description for the collection.
4. Enable Automatically select products.
5. In the Conditions section, tap the + button.
6. Select Compare at price.
7. Select is not empty.

Note

If a product, or any of its variants, has any value in the Compare at price field, then it is categorized as is not empty. This includes if the value is 0.

1. Tap the check mark to save the collection.
2. Add a link to your collection in your online store navigation so that customers can find and view the collection.

Example: Create a collection that contains products from other collections

Collections always contain products. You can’t create collections of collections. However, by using product tags and automated collection conditions, you can create a collection that contains all the products that are in other collections.

Tip

This example shows one way to create a collection that contains all the products that are also in other collections. Depending on your store setup and your needs, a different approach might work better for you.

Jayla runs a clothing store that also sells belts, hats, and other accessories. She wants to create a collection for belts and a collection for hats. She also wants a collection that contains all of her accessories, including all the belts and hats. By creating these collections, she’ll be able to display her related products in various ways on her online store.

She starts by creating the products, and enters a tag to identify each one:

Example of product tags to add

Product name	Product tag
Leather belt	belt
Braided belt	belt
Straw hat	hat
Sun hat	hat
Panama hat	hat

Next, she creates two automated collections, each with a single condition:

Example of automated collection conditions

Collection name	Condition
Belts	Product tag is equal to belt
Hats	Product tag is equal to hat

Now, Jayla can create another collection for all of the accessories, by using multiple conditions:

The collection, which she calls Accessories, has two conditions:

• Product tag is equal to hat
• Product tag is equal to belt

The any condition option is selected, so a product that matches either of those conditions is included in the new collection.

Later, if she adds other types of accessories, such as scarves, then she can tag them with scarf and add the condition Product tag is equal to scarf to her Accessories collection.

Having created the collections, Jayla can display them in her online store, and can update her online store navigation to link to the collections from menus.