Guides on
Product Sorting
How to decide which product goes where on a category page, and how to keep that decision right as stock, prices and demand change. Written by the team that builds Merchandiser.
All articles
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3 min read
Rolling Back a Bad Sort: Version History for Merchandising Teams
Someone changes a rule, clears the pins or uploads the wrong list, and a category looks wrong. How version history turns that into a one-minute fix.
Pins Sorting
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3 min read
Brand Diversity on the Shelf: Why One Brand Shouldn't Own the Page
When one brand fills a mixed category page, visitors who came to compare leave. How to measure brand dominance and what you can do about it.
Health Sorting
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4 min read
High Traffic, Low Conversion: Seven Warning Signs in Your Catalog
Seven patterns in product data that call for a decision, from products that draw traffic and do not sell to best sellers about to run out, and what to do.
Data Stock
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3 min read
Using Store Sales to Rank Products Online
Your physical stores know what sells before your website does. How to bring in-store sales into the ranking of your category pages, and when not to.
Data Sorting
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3 min read
Sorting a Shopify Collection Automatically: What the Admin API Allows
Shopify's built-in sort options are fixed. How an app sets a custom product order through the Admin API, what it changes on the collection, and what it needs.
Shopify Sorting
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3 min read
How Often Should a Collection Be Re-Sorted?
Hourly, daily or weekly? How to choose a sort frequency for each category from how fast its stock and demand move, and what faster sorting cannot fix.
Sorting
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3 min read
Sorting Rules vs. AI Ranking: Which to Use Where
A sorting rule does what you tell it; a machine-learning model finds what you did not think of. When each fits, and why most stores should run both.
AI Sorting
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4 min read
What a Healthy Category Page Looks Like: Seven Signals
Seven things to check on any category page: availability at the top, stock, traffic, freshness of the sort and the data, brand variety and pins.
Health Stock
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3 min read
Pinned Products: When to Pin and When to Let Go
Pins put a product exactly where you want it, and old pins quietly block better products. When pinning is the right tool, and how to keep pins from piling up.
Pins Sorting
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4 min read
Size-Broken Products: How to Keep Them Off Your Top Row
A product can be in stock and still unsellable to most visitors. How to measure size availability and stop size-broken products from holding your first row.
Stock Sorting
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2 min read
What is Visual Merchandising? The Ultimate Digital Guide
Discover what Visual Merchandising means for e-commerce. Learn how to optimize digital shelves, cut manual sorting time, and boost revenue with AI ranking.
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