We’ve fixed a group of issues in the Collections import that could quietly change how a collection’s rules behave, especially in hand-edited files. Exports and re-imports of exported files were not affected.
Fixes#
- Source column detection - a Collections file with a
Sourcecolumn and legacy rule columns now imports as a Collections file instead of dropping theSourcedata. - Must Match on edits - a blank
Must Matchcell keeps an existing source’s matching logic instead of resetting it to all conditions (field reference). - Status relations -
Statusrules now followRule: Relation, soNot Equalsworks, and unsupported relations are skipped with a warning. - Exclude rules - exclude rules match any condition, independent of
Must Match, so multiple exclusions no longer have to all match at once. - Published status filter - the collections export filter now sends the search field Shopify supports, so published and unpublished return the right collections (export filters).
Heads-up#
- Published status scope - Shopify decides a collection’s published status by the Online Store channel only, so collections published to other channels but not the Online Store count as unpublished.

