Create an automated collection
Creating an automatic collection means creating and setting the criteria for the system to automatically sort the products in the store into the collection. This will save you a lot of time and effort, especially when your collection has too many items. You can also refer to this article on how to create a manual collection in case you want specific control over the products that are included in the collection. In this article, we will show you how to create automatic collections.
From your ShopBase admin, go to Products > Collections and click Create collection.
You will be directed to Create collection page.
In which:
Title: Enter a name of the collection.
Description: Write the collection description.
Collection visibility: Tick Show on Collection List page if you want to display this collection in the collection list.
Collection image: Choose a profile picture for the collection. Drag the photo you want to represent the collection from your device and drop it into the Drop an image to upload box, or click on the box to select one from your device.
Add collection to navigation: Click the menu you want to display the collection in. Choose Select menu to pick the menu from the drop-down list. Click Edit navigation to move on to menu edit page.
Product thumbnail: Set up which product image will be shown as its thumbnail on the collection page. Please refer to this article for more information on how to set up.
Search engine listing preview: Edit collections displayed on search bar by clicking on Edit website SEO. Edit the collection title displayed on search engines in the Page title field (up to 70 characters), edit the collection description displayed on search engines in the Meta description field (up to 320 characters), edit the link of the collection in the URL and handle field
Collection type: Choose Automated to create an automated collection. In this section, you can select All conditions (products in the collection must match all conditions) or Any condition (products in the collection only need to match one of the conditions). Press Add another condition to add new conditions. Click on the first drop-down menu to select the information field of the product that you want to set conditions such as: Product title, Product type, Product vendor, Product price, Product tag, Compare at price, Weight, Inventory stock, Variant title. Click on the second drop-down menu to select the comparison types for the conditions you set such as: is equal to, is not equal to, is greater than, is less than, starts with, ends with, contains, doesn't contain. Enter the conditional value you want in the third field to complete the type of condition you create.
After creating an automated collection, you can't change its type from automatic to a manual one
Click Save to create your collection.
Then, the Products section will display all products in your newly created collection. You can sort the display order of the products in the collection by clicking Product title A-Z, and select the order in which the products in the collection will appear: Product title A-Z, Product title Z-A, Highest price, Lowest price, Newest, Oldest, Manual.
Click Save once finished.
There is no limit to adding products to a collection; however, for smooth store operation, a maximum of 10,000 products can be displayed in the storefront collection.
To ensure that a product appear on the Collection page, please select the Product availability on Online shop listing pages option on the Product detail page.
Overview of Collection
Create a manual collection
Edit a collection
Remove products from manually created collections
Delete a collection
Step by step Tutorial
From your ShopBase admin, go to Products > Collections and click Create collection.
You will be directed to Create collection page.
In which:
Title: Enter a name of the collection.
Description: Write the collection description.
Collection visibility: Tick Show on Collection List page if you want to display this collection in the collection list.
Collection image: Choose a profile picture for the collection. Drag the photo you want to represent the collection from your device and drop it into the Drop an image to upload box, or click on the box to select one from your device.
Add collection to navigation: Click the menu you want to display the collection in. Choose Select menu to pick the menu from the drop-down list. Click Edit navigation to move on to menu edit page.
Product thumbnail: Set up which product image will be shown as its thumbnail on the collection page. Please refer to this article for more information on how to set up.
Search engine listing preview: Edit collections displayed on search bar by clicking on Edit website SEO. Edit the collection title displayed on search engines in the Page title field (up to 70 characters), edit the collection description displayed on search engines in the Meta description field (up to 320 characters), edit the link of the collection in the URL and handle field
Collection type: Choose Automated to create an automated collection. In this section, you can select All conditions (products in the collection must match all conditions) or Any condition (products in the collection only need to match one of the conditions). Press Add another condition to add new conditions. Click on the first drop-down menu to select the information field of the product that you want to set conditions such as: Product title, Product type, Product vendor, Product price, Product tag, Compare at price, Weight, Inventory stock, Variant title. Click on the second drop-down menu to select the comparison types for the conditions you set such as: is equal to, is not equal to, is greater than, is less than, starts with, ends with, contains, doesn't contain. Enter the conditional value you want in the third field to complete the type of condition you create.
After creating an automated collection, you can't change its type from automatic to a manual one
Click Save to create your collection.
Then, the Products section will display all products in your newly created collection. You can sort the display order of the products in the collection by clicking Product title A-Z, and select the order in which the products in the collection will appear: Product title A-Z, Product title Z-A, Highest price, Lowest price, Newest, Oldest, Manual.
Click Save once finished.
There is no limit to adding products to a collection; however, for smooth store operation, a maximum of 10,000 products can be displayed in the storefront collection.
To ensure that a product appear on the Collection page, please select the Product availability on Online shop listing pages option on the Product detail page.
Related articles
Overview of Collection
Create a manual collection
Edit a collection
Remove products from manually created collections
Delete a collection
Updated on: 07/02/2024
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