Product Sorting - Feature Guide
Visitors can sort the products on your category, brand and All Products pages. You choose the order each page opens in, for the whole site or for one category.
What your visitors see
A sort control sits above the product list. It offers these orders:
- Featured: your own order. On a category page, this is the order you arranged the products in. On All Products and brand pages it is newest first, so the option shows as Newest.
- Newest: the most recently added products first.
- Price: low to high and Price: high to low: by each product's cheapest in-stock offer, which is the price shown on the product card. Products with no price go last.
- Top rated: products with your own rating first, highest score first, then products by their review score. Products with no rating go last. This option shows only when product reviews are switched on.
- Name: A to Z.
Each template shows the sort control in its own style, for example a dropdown or a row of links. The choices are the same in every template.
Search results and the Special Offers page have no sort control. Search results are ordered by relevance, and Special Offers by most viewed.
Set the default order for your site
1. Open the product settings
Go to Settings > Products.
2. Choose the order
In the Listing Order section, choose a Default Product Order. Featured keeps every category in the order you arranged it.
3. Save
Save the settings. Your category, brand and All Products pages open in the new order.
Set a different order for one category
1. Edit the category
Go to Products > Categories and edit the category.
2. Choose the order
In the Settings panel, choose a Product Order. Leave it empty to use your site default.
3. Save
Save the category. Its own order now wins over the site default.
Tips
- Keep Featured on categories where you have put your best products first by hand.
- Try Price: low to high on categories where shoppers compare prices, such as accessories and spare parts.
- Visitors can always pick another order, so the default only decides what they see first.
Questions and Troubleshooting
I changed the site default, but one category still shows the old order.
That category has its own Product Order. Edit the category and clear the field to use the site default.
How do I rearrange the Featured order?
Edit the category in Products > Categories and drag the products into the order you want. See How are products ordered on my site?
How do I show my newest products first?
Your All Products page already shows the newest products first. To open your category and brand pages with the newest products first too, set the Default Product Order to Newest first in Settings > Products. Products you import then appear at the front.
Why did a product move when sorting by price?
The price sort uses the product's cheapest in-stock offer. When offer prices or stock change, the product moves to match.