Manual collections

A manual collection includes the specific products that you choose. The collection will always contain the same products unless you add or remove them. Before you update a collection, you can review the top of the page to ensure no other staff are making changes to the same collection.

Plan requirements for creating manual collections

The Shopify Starter plan doesn't support grouping your products into collections to make it easier for customers to find them by category. If you require the ability to create collections, then you need to upgrade to a higher plan such as Basic Shopify, Shopify, Advanced Shopify, or Shopify Plus. Learn more about the different plan features.

Create a manual collection

You can create a manual collection and add products to the collection. If the collection is available to your online store, then you can change the order in which the products are displayed from the collection page.

You can add only entire products to a collection. You can't add specific variants.

If you don't want to publish the collection as soon as you create it, then you can set a specific date when the collection will be published to your online store. Learn more about future publishing.

Steps:

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

  2. Click Create collection.

  3. Enter a title and description for the collection.

  4. In the Collection type section, click Manual.

  5. Click Save.

  6. In the Products section, search for products or click Browse, and then add the products that you want to have in the collection.

  7. Set the sort order for how you want the products to be sorted in your store. For more information about sorting, refer to Change the sort order for the products in a collection.

  8. Optional: The Search engine listing preview section displays a preview of how the collection will be displayed in search results. If you want to edit this information, then click Edit website SEO. You can't change the URL and handle, because they' a're used to link the collection to your online store.

  9. In the Sales channels section, click Manage to select the sales channels where you want your collection to be available.

  10. In the Collection image section, click Add image to upload an image for the collection. For information about the sizes of images that you can use, refer to Product Media Types.

  11. Click Save.

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

Add products to a manual collection

You can add only entire products to a collection. You can't add specific variants.

Steps:

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

  2. Click the name of the collection that you want to add products to.

  3. In the Products section, search for products or click Browse, and then add the products that you want to have in the collection.

Add a product to existing collections from its details page

You can add a product to one or more existing manual collections from the product's details page.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products.

  2. Click the product that you want to add to a collection.

  3. In the Collections section, select one or more existing collections.

  4. Click Save to add the product to all the selected collections.

Remove products from a manual collection

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

  2. Click the name of the collection that you want to update.

  3. In the Products section, click the x beside every product that you want to remove from your collection. This doesn't delete the product from Shopify.

Change the publish date of a collection

You can set a specific publishing date for a collection to become available in your online store.

Steps:

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

  2. Click a collection.

  3. In the Sales channels section, click the calendar icon beside Online Store.

  4. Set the date and time that you want to publish the collection.

  5. Click Save.

Delete a collection

Steps:

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

  2. Click the name of the collection that you want to delete.

  3. Click Delete collection.

  4. Click Delete collection in the confirmation box to delete the collection.

Links to deleted collections are automatically removed from online store menus. You can also delete more than one collection at the same time using a bulk action.

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