It's 11pm. You're dragging products to the top of a collection by hand, one at a time. Tomorrow stock moves and the order is wrong again. So you do it again.
The first screen sells your store. Stop sorting it by hand.
The products at the top of your collection are the ones that sell. Sledge puts the right ones there, your bestsellers, your in-stock, your new arrivals, and keeps them there as stock moves. By hand when you have the taste. By rule when you don't have the time.
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// The page-two truth
Your bestsellers shouldn't be buried on page two.
Think about how you shop. You scan the first row, maybe the second, and you decide. You almost never click to page two. Your shoppers are the same. Whatever sits up top gets bought. Whatever sits below might as well not exist.
Per product-sorting research from Entaice, about 73% of shoppers never reach page two. That cost is paid before a shopper ever scrolls.
So the order of your collection is not a tidiness chore. It is the biggest merchandising decision you make every day, and right now you make it by dragging products around at 11pm, hoping it sticks.
Sledge decides that first screen for you, across the whole collection and your search results, so your best products greet shoppers instead of your slow movers.
// The 60-product wall
You can't drag a product from page two to page one.
Shopify changed manual sort, and it stopped working past 60 products. You drag a hero product up, it lands on page one, and the items you wanted to bury are stranded on page two where you cannot reach them. Shopify only sorts within the same page, so you can't move in-stock products ahead of the sold-out ones below the fold.
It's busywork that doesn't even finish the job: you spend the hour, and the long tail still sits wrong.
Sledge has no page-two wall. Pick the products you want to move, pin, boost, or bury them, and then drag those picks into the order you want. The rest of the collection arranges itself behind them, on one rule that reaches the whole thing instead of stopping at 60. You are not dragging a thousand cards, you are placing the handful that matter and letting a rule carry the tail.
See pricing// The stockout sweep
Sold-out products shouldn't greet your shoppers.
A shopper lands on your bestselling collection. The first four products are sold out. Nothing to add to cart, so they leave for a store where the first thing they saw was buyable. You did not choose to show them dead ends. Shopify just has no native way to keep sold-out items off the top.
This is the quietest leak on the page. It never shows up as an error. It shows up as a shopper who came, saw four out-of-stock products, and went somewhere else.
Set one rule in Sledge: bury sold-out, keep in-stock up top. It reads inventory and re-sorts for you, demoting sold-out products and restoring them when they return, so the top of the collections Sledge renders stays buyable without another manual pass.
// See it before you publish
"What if I break my best-selling page?"
Fair fear. The collection that pays your rent is not the one to experiment on blind. Change the order, guess wrong, and you have quietly buried the products doing the work, with no idea until the day's sales come in low.
So Sledge previews the re-ordered collection, the exact grid your shoppers will see with the rule applied, before you commit. One thing to set on your first rule: the status defaults to Enable, so switch it to Draft while you are still experimenting. In Draft you can rearrange as much as you like and the live store never moves. Set it back to Enable and save when the order is the one you want.
// Close the loop
You re-sorted on a hunch. Did it actually sell more?
You think leading with bestsellers beats leading with newest. Maybe. But "it feels better" is not a number, and a reorder that looks tidier can quietly convert worse. Most merchandising tools stop at "trust us, it's smarter." That leaves you guessing.
Don't argue with yourself. Test it. Sledge A/B-tests the collection order itself: half your shoppers see one arrangement, half the other, split evenly per session. It reports revenue per variant, so you keep the arrangement that measurably sells more. Test everything. Keep what wins.
Questions, answered
How do I sort out-of-stock products to the bottom on Shopify?
Shopify has no built-in way to do it automatically across a whole collection. Sledge does: set one rule and it demotes sold-out products to the bottom by live inventory, then restores them when they restock.
Can I sort a Shopify collection with more than 60 products?
Yes. Shopify's manual sort breaks past 60 products. A Sledge rule orders the entire collection in one pass, and you can pin, boost, or bury any product regardless of which page it currently sits on.
How do I boost bestsellers to the top of a Shopify collection?
Set a rule in Sledge to boost by best-seller, most-viewed, or click-through-rate over the last 7, 14, or 30 days. It applies across the whole collection and inside search, with no separate sorting app.
Does Sledge merchandising work on search results too?
Yes. The same boost, pin, demote, hide, and inject controls apply to collection pages and search results, so the products you push forward show up first in both.
Can I order products by hand instead of by rule?
Both. Pin and drag any product by hand, set rules for the long tail, or mix the two on one collection. Manual placements hold; rules handle the rest.
Will I see the new order before it goes live?
Yes. Sledge previews the re-ordered collection exactly as shoppers will see it. Set the rule status to Draft while you experiment, because it defaults to Enable, then switch to Enable and save when you are happy with the order.
How is this different from a dedicated collection sorting app?
Sledge merchandising is included, not a separate subscription, and it does more than sort: pin, boost, demote, bury, hide, and inject, across collections and search, with preview-before-publish and built-in A/B testing on the order.
Stop dragging. Set one rule.
Install free. Re-order your busiest collection today, preview it before it goes live, and let the rule keep it fresh while you do anything else.
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