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 asale 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 aCompare-atprice. To learn more about usingCompare-atprices to put products on sale, seeSetting sale prices.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toProducts>Collections.

  2. ClickAdd a collection.

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

  4. In theCollection typesection, clickAutomated.

  5. Selectall conditions.

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

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

  1. Set any other conditions that you want.

  2. ClickSave collection.

  3. Add a link to your collection in your online store navigationso 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.

加伊拉经营一家服装店,还销售皮带,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:

Conditions for the collection

The collection, which she callsAccessories, has two conditions:

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

Theany conditionoption 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 withscarfand add the conditionProduct tag is equal to scarfto herAccessoriescollection.

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

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