Rearranging Product Order in Shopify

Changing the order only works inside collections, not the full product list.

Manual Sorting (Best for featured collections)

  1. Go to Shopify Admin > Products > Collections

  2. Click on the collection you want to reorder

  3. Scroll to Products

  4. At the top-right of the list, change Sort by to:

    • Manual

  5. Drag and drop products into the order you want

Tip from shopthemedetector.com: Start with your bestsellers, seasonal promos, or high-margin items. Don’t bury the good stuff.

Other Sorting Options (automated)

If you don’t want to sort manually, you can let Shopify do it based on:

  • Best selling

  • Price: Low to High / High to Low

  • Newest / Oldest

  • Alphabetical

To change this:

  1. Under Sort dropdown, choose the logic that fits your goal

Example:

For high-end stores, “Price: High to Low” makes luxury items feel more aspirational.

Advanced: Pin Items With Tags

You can combine manual sorting with smart tagging:

  • Add a tag like priority

  • Use it in the collection conditions

  • Place those products at the top of your manual sort

how to change the order of products in shopify instructions and illustrations and options

It’s a hack that helps Shopify owners control visibility like a merchandiser.So you have totally set up and finished putting together your Shopify store and are ready for business, or maybe you’ve been running an online store for a while already. However, you are looking at your site and are thinking “Maybe this product shouldn’t be so low on the list” or “I actually want this product to be lower down in the collection”. Well if either of these thoughts (or ones that are similar) have ever crossed your mind and you haven’t figured out how to move your shop’s products around, don’t worry, there is a way to move around the order of the products on your Shopify site. Want to know how to arrange products in Shopify? Just keep on reading.

Key Takeaways
1
Products in Shopify can be reordered based on your preference.
2
To change the order, navigate to Products, then Collections, and choose your desired sort method.
3
After selecting the order, remember to click Save to apply changes.

How Can I Rearrange the Order of My Products in a Collection?

So here’s the deal. If you’ve never moved around the order of your products before then they will show up on the site in the same sort order that you initially selected and the products are all sorted alphabetically by default.

Now that you want to change up the initial order you have a few different options to choose from for going about doing this.

You can either sort the items:

  1. Manually
  2. By Best Selling
  3. Price by: highest to lowest
  4. Price by: lowest to highest
  5. Alphabetically: A-Z
  6. Alphabetically: Z-A
  7. By date: Newest to oldest
  8. By date: Oldest to newest

(note: that sorting by Best Selling is based on the regularity of the product variant being a part of the orders that were placed in the last 30 days and not by the number of units that have actually been sold. The collection sorting is calculated weekly.)

Here are the steps you will need to take if you want to change the order of your products in any of these ways:

  • In your Shopify admin click Products and then go to the collection page by clicking Collections
  • On the collections page, choose a collection that you want to change the order of
  • Under the Products section click on the drop down list that is beside the Sort button
  • Select the order you want to choose (if you choose Manually then you will have to click and drag the products in order to reorder them)
  • After you’ve finished click Save.