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.

Note

You can't change an automatic collection to a manual collection. Instead, create a manual collection and add the products that you want.

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.

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Steps:

Android

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > Collections.
2. Tap the + button.
3. Enter a title and description for the collection.
4. Optional: Tap the image icon to upload an image for the collection.
5. Make sure that Automate product list is deactivated.
6. Optional: In the Sales channels section, tap Edit to customize which sales channels the collection will be visible to. By default, the new collection will be available to all of your sales channels. Deselect any channels that you want to hide the collection from. Learn more about collection availability.
7. In the Products section, add the products that you want to include in the collection. Refer to the next section to learn about adding products to a collection.
8. Tap ✓ to save.
9. Optional: Tap Sort by to select the order in which the collection's products will display your online store. Learn more about sorting collections.
10. 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:

Android

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > Collections.
2. Tap the collection that you want to add products to.
3. In the Products section, tap Edit. If the collection doesn't have any products yet, then you'll tap Add products instead.
4. Check the products that you want to include in the collection.
5. When you've selected all the products that you want to include, tap ✓ to save.

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:

Android

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > All products.
2. Tap Collections.
3. Check each collection that you want to include the product. You can check only the manual collections, not the automated collections.
4. Tap the back button to return to the product details screen.
5. Tap the check mark to save your changes to the product.

Remove products from a manual collection

Android

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > Collections.
2. Tap the collection that you want to remove products from.
3. In the Products section, tap Edit.
4. Uncheck the products that you want to remove from the collection.
5. When you've deselected all the products that you want to remove, tap ✓ to save.

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

Note

Deleted collections are permanently removed from your Shopify admin. You can also hide the collection from a sales channel without deleting it.

Steps:

Android

1. From the Shopify app, go to Products > Collections.
2. Tap the collection that you want to delete.
3. Tap the ⋮ button.
4. Tap Delete collection.
5. If you're sure that you want to delete the collection, then tap Delete to confirm.