Shopify just made collections a lot more powerful: a single collection can now combine automated rules with hand-picked products, exclude items, pull in other collections, and even target individual variants. We support all of it from day one, through the new Collections data type (learn more).
🚀 What’s New#
- Rules and hand-picks together - automate most of a collection with rules, then curate a few featured products into the same collection.
- Exclusions - keep a broad rule like “tagged summer” and pull out the exceptions, no tag gymnastics needed.
- Subcollections - assemble a parent collection from the contents of others, like “Shoes” from “Sneakers” and “Boots”.
- Variant-level collections - include just the variants that qualify, such as only the sizes on sale.
- Bulk editing for everything above - each part of a collection has its own rows in the sheet, and the new
Source Commandcolumn updates or deletes one part without touching the rest. - Safe backups - exports capture the complete definition of the new collections, including manual sort order, so a backup restores exactly what you had.
⚠️ Heads-up#
- Collections appears as a separate data type on the export page for now. It will replace the Smart collections and Manual collections options in the future.
- Your existing Smart and Manual collection files keep working as they did before.