Collection automation

Schedule the collection changes you keep making by hand

Re-sort a collection, rewrite its title or description, move it in and out of sales channels, or reorder its products, at a date and time you set, once or on repeat.

  • Runs in your store's timezone
  • Repeats daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
  • A free Demo plan to start on

Nothing to add to your theme. Schedules run on our servers, so your browser does not have to be open.

The problem

Merchandising is a job you redo every week

A collection is never finished. The sort order goes stale, the seasonal copy is wrong by March, and the sale collection has to appear and disappear on cue.

Re-sorting the sale collection every Monday morning

A recurring schedule that re-sorts it while you sleep

Seasonal collection copy that is still up in February

Set the change back at the same time you set the change

Hiding a collection from a channel on launch night

Schedule the channel change for the minute it should happen

Dragging products into position by hand, again

Save the order once and schedule it to be reapplied

Actions

What it can change on a collection

Every action targets collections, and one schedule can cover several collections at once.

Sort order

Switch a collection between Shopify's sort options (best selling, price, title, newest) on a schedule.

Manual product order

Drag products into the exact order you want, or type target positions, and schedule that order to be applied.

Title and description

Rewrite a collection's title or its description at a set time, so seasonal copy changes itself over.

Sales channels

Add a collection to a channel or remove it, so it shows up exactly where and when it should.

SEO fields

Schedule the SEO title and description, and the theme template suffix that decides how the collection page renders.

Image and metafields

Update the collection's featured image and its metafields on the same schedule as everything else.

How it works

Build it once, then leave it

1. Choose collections

One collection or several. The same actions apply to all of them, so a rule you write once covers the whole set.

2. Add the actions

Several actions can sit on one schedule, each with its own date and time.

3. Choose when

A single moment, or a repeat: daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.

4. Watch it run

The Timeline shows what has run and what is next, and every action leaves an activity log entry behind it.

Pricing

Start free, upgrade when you need to

Billed by Shopify on your regular store invoice. Advanced starts with a 3-day free trial and can be cancelled from the admin at any time.

Demo

Free

Enough to schedule the collection you care about most.

  • 5 scheduled collection updates
  • Up to 10 collections per schedule
  • Collection sort order, title, description, SEO and template suffix
  • Standard live chat support

FAQ

Questions, answered

Does anything change on my storefront before the scheduled time?

No. Until the moment you picked, the schedule only exists inside the app. At that moment it calls the Shopify Admin API and makes the change, exactly as if you had made it by hand.

Which timezone do schedules run in?

Your store's timezone, read from Shopify. Pick 9:00 on a Friday and it runs at 9:00 on Friday for your store.

Can one schedule cover several collections?

Yes. Pick the collections, then add the actions once: they apply to all of them. The Demo plan covers up to 10 collections per schedule; Advanced has no limit.

Can a schedule repeat?

Yes: daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, with a set number of occurrences.

Do I have to change my theme or add any code?

No. Everything happens through the Shopify Admin API against your collection data. There is nothing to paste into a theme and nothing to remove if you uninstall.

What if I need to schedule products, not collections?

That is a separate app from the same team: Bulk Edit & Product Scheduler covers products, variants, prices, inventory and price lists. The two can run side by side on one store.

Stop re-merchandising by hand

Install from the Shopify App Store, start on the free Demo plan, and schedule your first collection change today.

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