> ## Documentation Index
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# Collections

> Group products for merchandising — by hand or from rules that keep the group up to date.

Collections are flat groups of products used for merchandising: "Summer 2025", "Best Sellers", "Gifts Under \$50". Unlike [Categories](/docs/user/products/categories), they have no hierarchy and a product can belong to as many as you like.

The useful part is that a collection can fill itself. Set rules once, and products join and leave as their tags, price or availability change — no list to maintain.

To manage collections, open the **Collections** tab of the admin dashboard, found under Products.

## Create a collection

Click **New Collection**, give it a name, and save. You will land on the collection editor, where you decide how its products are chosen.

## Choosing the products

A collection is either curated by hand or driven by rules. The switch is **Set members automatically from rules**.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Curated by hand">
    Leave the switch off and pick products yourself with **Add products**. Search, tick the ones you want, and they are added when you save.

    Use this when the grouping is an editorial decision — a homepage feature, a gift guide — that no rule could express.

    You can also set the order products appear in. Choose **Manual** sorting and drag rows into place; any other sort order is applied for you.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Filled from rules">
    Turn the switch on and describe what belongs. Products matching the rules appear immediately and refresh on their own afterwards.

    Choose whether products must match **all** conditions or **any** of them, then add one or more rules:

    | Rule         | Matches products that                       |
    | ------------ | ------------------------------------------- |
    | Tag          | carry a given product tag                   |
    | On sale      | are marked down — a compare-at price is set |
    | Available on | were published within a date range          |

    Each rule takes a condition — *is equal to*, *is not equal to*, *contains*, *does not contain* — and a value.

    The product list becomes read-only: the rules own membership, so there is nothing to curate by hand.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<Note>
  Switching a collection from rules back to hand-picked clears nothing, but the products it had been matching are no longer members until you add them. Decide which way a collection works before you build a storefront page around it.
</Note>

## Storefront listing

Collections have their own page on the storefront, so each one gets a name, description, images and search engine listing settings — the same fields a category has. The slug is what appears in the URL.

## Translations

If your store sells in more than one language, collection names and descriptions can be translated. See [Translations](/docs/user/translations/translations).

## Categories or collections?

Both group products, and stores normally use both.

* **Categories** are the shelves — a browsable tree a customer navigates. Fashion → Men → Footwear.
* **Collections** cut across the shelves — everything on sale, everything new this season, everything under \$50.

A pair of trainers sits in one place in the category tree and may appear in several collections at once.