Shopify Subcollections (subcategories)

what's up guys. i'm paul and welcome to the ecommerce gold youtube channel. so a common question or query i get about shopify is: how do i create sub collections or subcategories? and the simple answer is: you can't. shopify just doesn't allow this with the way its collection system works, and i'll show you what i mean by this. so if you're going to create a collection, there's no option available anywhere on the page to add this collection as a sub collection of another collection. that's a lot of collections in a short period of time, but there's just no option here. it doesn't matter whether it's an automated collection or a manual collection. the option just isn't there. and even if you go in and edit an existing one, once again that option isn't there because shopify just doesn't allow you to do this. but there are a couple of workarounds you can use. so it appears this way on the front end of your website. i'm going to quickly show you what these are in this video. so the first one is using your navigation menu, and this one is super simple and super easy to do- and on the front end of your site, if we jump into our front end of my demo store, if we click on accessories, it'll bring up a drop down menu with watches and signet rings and if we click on either of these, it'll bring up all the collections that we have available. so that's one way you can make it appear that way on the front end of your website. and this is really easy to set up, because what we're going to do is go back into our dashboard, go into online store, go into navigation and click on our main menu and, as you can see, this is how i've set this up, basically nestled options under other options, but i'll show you how to set this up yourself. so the first one is you need to add a menu item and you can choose any link you want for this, because as soon as you add an option, underneath it, it stops becoming a clickable link and just becomes a drop down menu. so for this, we're just going to add pages and we'll click on accessories and we'll add that item to the menu, and then we're going to add another option. so we'll go into pages again and we'll click on watches. follow a simple kind of recipe, what i've already showed you: click on add and then, to drag this across, what you want to do is click on these six dots here so the hand appears, and just drag it over to the right so that blue circle just moves over to the right slightly. release your mouse and it'll nestle watches under accessories and on the front end of your site. if you save this menu, accessories would no longer be a clickable link. so if you clicked on it it wouldn't take you through to the page or whatever link you chose for that main menu heading. it just doesn't become a clickable link anymore. it just becomes an option to show a drop down menu and to add another level to this menu. what we're going to do is click on add menu item to accessories and we're actually going to choose one of our collections, because this is what we actually want a clickable link for. so click on automatik watches, add that one to the menu and once again, we're going to click on those six dots and drag it to the right so that blue circle moves over and then it nestles automatik watches under watches and on the front end of your site, just as i just showed. neither of these two options are clickable, because up here you see, i've done the same thing and these are links to pages, but if we go back into the front end of our site open these up. they're no longer clickable links that take you through to those pages. they just open up the drop down menu for your collections. so that's the way the navigation menu works. it's super simple. it was actually better in the old system, because this is using the new os 2.0 and i'll show you what i mean by this. so if we go into a menu, go into themes, we'll leave that page because i don't want to save that menu. and if we preview one of the old themes- which is the debut theme, which is the old default theme, and if you click on accessories, the top level used to still be clickable. so while the main menu heading would just present the drop down menu, the actual kind of next level that you used to create. so watches and signet rings used to be clickable. so if you clicked on these, it will take you through to that page. but they've changed that on the new one. i don't know why. it's definitely not an improvement on the new os 2.0. i preferred the old menu layout because you used to be able to make things appear better for your customers on the front end of your site. but that's the first way you can do it, which is using the navigation menu. it's super simple to do and it does appear like there's sub collections on the front end of your site. it just doesn't appear as well as it used to with the old menu system, but it still works quite well because under accessories you've still got those two headings and then people can navigate to your collections. so it does work. it works pretty well and it makes it easy for customers to navigate the front end of your site. now the second method is using pages on your site to link from one page to another to a collection. now i've done a full tutorial showing you exactly how to set this up, which i'll leave a link to in the card above. it's one of those sites- i can't remember which one. i'll also leave a link to it in the description because i go through step by step how to set this up using the new os 2.0, because it is pretty simple to do, and in this video i'm not going to go through and replicate myself on that one, because i've already done a video explaining all the steps. i'll just show you exactly how it works. so, as you can see on this menu, what we've got is: it's set up. so we've got basically a parent collection and then a sub collection. but by using sections that are available in the new os 2.0, you can create the following kind of setup. so if we click on accessories, you'll see that i've got the two same options that i've got in this drop down menu. so i've got watches and signet rings and if we click on signet rings, for example, it takes you through to all of the collections i've got available under the signet rings and then customers can click on that and it'll show you all the products that are available. and this works really well. it can look really good on the front end of your site. i'll quickly show you the sections that you need to use when you're setting up these pages. so if we go back into themes and we'll go back up and we'll click on customize to open the theme customizer, you want to create page templates, which i'll show you how to do in the other video, but i'll show you the sections you need. so go on pages and we'll create a new template, we'll base it on the default page and we'll call this demo original. i know, create template and, as you can see, it brings up a blank page for you to work from, the two sections you're going to need are you're going to need the collection list, which shows you all the collections, and this takes you through to all the products that are in your collection. the second section you'll need- if you want to create a page in front of this one- is you're going to need to use the multi-column section. so if we add that one, this is the multi-column section and you just basically set it up so it appears like this page on the front end of your site. so you add a picture and add a link, etc. and then this page. you'll then link through to the collection list, which is this one, and then that one goes through to your products. so you click on that one and it goes through to your products. so it's very simple to do. you just need to set the templates up and the pages but say i show you exactly how to do that in my other video, going to it in much more detail. so those are the two methods i've found for making it appear like you've got sub collections on the front end of your website. now, i know neither of these are perfect, but they are better than nothing and it's going to make it a lot easier for customers to navigate around your site now.

How To Create Sub Collections in Shopify 2.0 - Start Doing This Now!

for a long time it was difficult to create sub-collections in shopify, in the old shopify that is. it's gotten a lot easier in shopify 2.0 and i think that now is the perfect time to jump on this opportunity and to actually create sub-collections and main collection pages in your shopify store. there are some benefits to doing this, mainly seo. so google's algorithm likes to see clusters of content, right, it likes to see groupings of content, so, whether it's like blog categories and then blog posts in that category, for you as a store owner it's products and then categories of products and then more general parent categories of products. so the reason that it was difficult in the old shopify to create sub collections is because in shopify we don't have really any concept of sub collections. all collections are kind of the same level, they're all equal. so it was kind of difficult to do. you could, of course, like on turbo theme, you could have a mega menu with headings and under those headings you could list your collections, and so that kind of gives that effect of having sub collections, right. but you still you didn't have a page for this parent collection. the parent collection on this theme, for example, just lists products. it does not list actual sub collections. and if you wanted to create sub collections like this on an older shopify theme, there were different, tricky ways to do it in various themes. sometimes you would create a navigation list, as in the same thing that you would do for a menu, and then some themes let you output those navigation lists as sub collections on a page. on other themes you had to copy and paste code to do that. anyway, all of that is in the past now if you're on shopify 2.0, because nowadays all you have to do is create a new template and then add a section to that template and then you can duplicate your template for every main collection page that you want to create. if that sounds a bit confusing, i'm going to walk you through it right now. so i'm going to go off camera right now and i'll show you how it works. alright, guys, here we are in my development store and the first thing that i want to clarify- that i think is quite important- is that there is a default collection listing page in shopify. you can access it by going to your shopify url and then slash collections. this is one of the default pages in shopify. you cannot delete it. you cannot change this url. the slash collections page lists all your collections and it will always be there. you can edit that page by choosing the collections list template, and your theme might have some settings that you can change on this page. so what i tok about when i say sub collections is not this page. what i'm toking about is, say, having a boys collection right and inside that collection to have boys pants, boys shirts and boys shorts right, and we don't want to display girls collections or any other collections. another thing that i just want to remind you of is that there is no such thing as different collection levels in shopify. there is no actual concept of sub collections. all collections are the same. so when you're creating your collections and your sub collections, you're just going to create them as regular collections. so i'm going to be using boys as my parent collection and then inside the boys collection there's going to be boys shorts, pants and shirts. they're all just regular collections. so just create your collections as you would normally and then we can move on to the next part. so now we're ready to create the main collection page, which is going to contain our sub collections. so the parent page for me it's going to be the boys collection that i showed you earlier. so we're going to enter the theme editor using the template selector. we're going to go to collections and then select the default collection. you can ignore this. you probably won't have anything here, but let's just go to the default collection template. as you can see, it's showing boys collection for me, which is just listing products in that collection, but i want it to list sub collections. if you don't see the collection that you want to be working on, you can change that here by clicking change and then preview a different collection. but just keep in mind that this is a preview of a collection, but you're still editing the default collection currently. so what we're going to do is again go into collections and now click create template. i'm going to call it boys collection. you don't have to name it like this, but it's just that if you go like this with spaces and capitals, it's going to automatikally turn it into this kind of hyphenated format anyway. so i just use that straight away. so let's create a boys collection template. so now we're editing the boys collection template. in case you're still previewing a different collection, i recommend changing it to the one that you want, just so that it's not confusing, and now we can go ahead and change what sections we want to show on this template. by default we have this collection banner which would show, like the collection image, the collection description, if you have one, and it would just be here like text and image. we can hide that. we can't remove this section completely, but we can hide it if you don't want it. i recommend just adding a section now for a collection list. i'm using dawn theme and it's got this collection list section, but any theme that you're using will have some kind of section that lists collections and because we now have sections everywhere in shopify 2.0, you can add whatever section you want and use that to display your collections. so i'm going to select my boys pants collection, you know my shirts and short collection, and there we have the basic layout of a main collection page which is displaying sub collections. we can change this to be like boys clothing, so this heading is like that. we can also make a much nicer looking layout by adding, for example, a rich text section at the top here and we can say something like browse boys collections, and so then we see the boys collections and then we have the products. now, of course you can hide this product grid if you just want it to be, and you can hide this collection banner if you just want this to be a sub collection page. right, just listing these collections. but i don't recommend this. the thing is that this is good for seo. you can actually reduce the amount of products that are visible on this page. so i have 12.. if you want there to be less, you can make eight. so it's just kind of a preview of all boys products and you have your sub collections. but the issue with hiding it entirely is that this isn't as good for seo. google's algorithm likes to see groupings of products on pages, so now that we've created this page, the url is going to be: slash collections- boys. google will see that we have on this page boys pants, boys shirts and boys shorts, but plus it could also see a grouping of products, and that would make this page more filled with content and stronger. now the last thing that you need to do is to actually apply this template to the boys collection. so remember that we just created this template and we're previewing it currently on the boys collection, but we can preview it on any collection and it will be the same. so we've just created a template. this template needs to be applied somewhere and that's done through the collections page. so when you go into any collection, you can select the template that is used and you will now see boys collection appears here. so you can select boys collection, hit save and now when we view this collection, you will see that it has the custom template that we created. the great thing about these templates in shopify 2.0 is that you can duplicate them. so if i wanted to create the same thing but for girls- so i want to do a girls collection- i would create a template and then i can base it on boys collection. i would name it girls collection, create the template and it would already have all the sections set up. so i'm i can.

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How to Create sub collections in Shopify

what's up everyone? edwin anthony here with another tutorial for shopify. if you're new to this channel, you already know what to do. if you like that shopify stuff, just go ahead and uh, subscribe, turn on that notification bell. you notike that on the weekly basis in my channel. i've been throwing kind of like some of that, uh, business stuff, so i'm trying to see how you guys do with that. but i know that you guys really like the tutorials and that's why i'm squeezing this tutorial in. anyways, let's get right to it. uh, what are we gonna tok about today? uh, today's topic: we're gonna solve everything related to collections and multi-tier level collections. what i mean by that? sometimes you might have a menu system at the top where it has a drop down, and on that drop down on some websites that have a medium size to a large size inventory, right, what's going to happen is that you'll need a second layer or a second tier collection, and then, right underneath that, you need a third tier collection, right? and let me give you guys an idea as to more or less what that looks like in the real world, so that we know what we're toking about here, and then we're gonna get right to it. let me show you all, right. so the best way that you can see this example is going to our popular theme, turbo, which, of course, if you guys are interested, i'll have that link down below. we use that for a lot of our projects. and if we pay attention to the desktop, we have the top menu system, as you can see, right here we have shop, but then once we hover over and click on it, you'll see that mega menu come out and then we have a column of different tiers of connect collections. we have women's apparel. this is a level two collection, in other words, it's here too. you'll explain it, i'll explain in a second. and then level three would be this one, which would be tops. so why do i see level one, level two, whatever? so this one, if i click on shop, if i click on this one, i call this the master collection. this is the one that goes all the way at the top, the one that's on the top of the food chain. if you click on this, it takes you to a collection that's called shop, all right, which pretty much shows you all of the products, right? so that's pretty, pretty obvious. uh, if we click on this and we click instead on women's apparel. now remember, women's apparel has sub categories underneath that, such as tops, bottoms, accessories. but if i click on women's apparel without clicking on any of those bottom ones, click on that, it takes me to a dedicated collection of nothing but these products here for women's apparel. that's level two. level three is when i click on tops, it's its own collection. it's just that it's queried up to just show those products that are just women tops. so how do we get this completed in shopify? one of the best things where i want to start at is go to like google sheets and start yourself a google documents form and plan out. i cannot stress how planning out is so important, because if you just try to like- you know freestyle, this shoot from the hip type of thing- and you just try to go at it right away and try to like set all this up, you're going to realize that it's going to create a lot of anxiety. it's going to create, um, a lot of frustration and going back and did i do this or i forgot to do that? and and when your frustration goes really high, it leads to this video or you end up hiring somebody that eventually will do that for you. but the purpose of this video again is to show you how this is done, and planning is the first step. so let's start by planning. so by planning, we're going to tok about setting up the main main menu system. i could type, and we type it in a google sheets so that we have that there. so this is the main menu system and based on what this is all broken up, let's discover what our collections, or what our level of collections are going to be. so we're going to start all the way at the top, where we have buy turbo, shop, gallery and theme info. write all that stuff down, right, so buy turbo, you know. and then we have the famous shop button and then the rest of the buttons. what were they? the rest of the buttons was gallery and theme info, right, okay. so now that we have that, we identify what are singular links and what are drop downs, that you have to plan out your navigation menu through here first so that you could take all this and then program it correctly all in one shot, versus going back here, back there. go this page, go that page, start here first. from shop, you say, okay, now this is shop. okay, i want to this is my right here, these guys right here. this is called master menu items. okay, all of these guys master menu items. let's go ahead and center this, okay, let's get rid of that and put this over here so that we know what we're toking about. okay, so this right here is our master, uh, set of items, or master menu items. it's all the way at the top, okay, and to kind of like, do a little something like this: uh, border it up and then let's say, shop, shop is a mega menu and the rest are singular, um, direct links, right. so we're saying, look, this is a singular link, singular links. okay, that's a mega menu. so now that shop's there, okay, fine, shop. what do we have underneath that as level two items? so level two items, according to turbo, how they have here, is we have women's apparel, yoga bags, okay. so we're gonna go right here: women's apparel, okay, yoga bags, right, and we start to fill this up all the way through, okay, so let's fast forward, all right. so i went ahead and cleaned it up a little bit so that you guys could see it. uh, let me see if i could zoom in just a tad bit more on this so you guys could see what i'm doing here. let's put it at 150.. i hope you guys could see there. okay, so we have a master menu. we have our second tier collections. we're identifying them. okay, because the first tier, the master collection, is called shop. shop is the master one. the second tier is collections. now what's the third? the third is what follows up right underneath each of these second tier collections. i'm going to fill that out too, and finally we have our third tier collection. so, long story short, this is how our planning looks like. let me zoom out here so that you guys could see just a bit how all of this uh planning happens. okay, so what i suggest is, for planning purposes, you start off here. you try to emulate on a google sheets exactly what your main system is. most importantly, don't lose that sheet, because every time your business evolves and you're trying to update rather inventory, new types of products came in, new catalogs came in, whatever you always want to refer back to when you first did this- and for that reason i'm going to go ahead and call this google docs, right, my inventory collections uh system, so you could call it, you know, the website's collection system, or inventory or main menu system. call it whatever you want. the point is is that you you have to always come back to this the moment that you want to change something. reason for that is so that you could understand visually what are the things that you're going to either delete or that you're going to create new. long story short. you need to follow down this path. let's pretend that we went over. we've already went ahead and did all this, so we are ready to go ahead and start implementing this stuff. how we're going to do this? we're going to do this backward guys. so first we need to create these third love, third tier collections. we're going to work backwards. we're not going to work from all the way at the top. we're going to work from all the way at the bottom. we're going to reverse engineer this problem and work our way up, and there's a reason to this madness, of course. okay, so what do i mean by that? i mean that you're gonna focus on creating the collections for the third tiers. okay, third tier collections. what you do is that you go to your website and you create a collection. so let's go to the website here, to this practike website. i'm going to go here to where it says products, collections and what you're going to do.

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How To Add Product Categories In Shopify | For Dropshipping (2022)

how to add product categories in shopify. hey guys, welcome back to the youtube channel. in this video, i'm going to be showing you how you can add your product categories on shopify, so let's get into it now. the first thing that you might be wondering is: i have logged onto my shopify store. i'm editing the online store. how do i add categories? well, you don't add product categories from the online store editor. you're gonna do that before you actually go into editing your store. so just log on to your shopify store. this is going to be your homepage, and now what you're going to do is you're going to click on online store over here. once you click on that, you're going to click on navigation, and once you click on navigation, you're going to click on add menu. so, or you can just click on main menu over here and from your main menu, what you're going to do this is your product catalog. so to add categories and subcategories, you're going to click on add menu item. you're going to write, let's say, bose, and then what you're going to do is you're going to click on add and then you're going to add a page over here. so we're going to later on add those pages. but what you're going to do is you're going to drag this over here, drag it above, and if you move it to the right over here, this is going to be created as a sub page. so you can see, over here in our catalog we have the sub page of bose. now, after that you can keep on adding more sub pages. and another thing that you can do is click on add menu item. you can write small bows and click on add. over here we're just going to add the home page and then what you can do is you can move this to the right as well. and now bose has one category as well which is called small bows. so this has its own categories and these categories have their own subcategories. and let's say you add large bows and you're going to click on add and then you have these two subcategories now. after that you can just click on add menu item. let's say we have t-shirts, we're going to add that other subcategory and you're just going to click on save and you're going to add that. so these are two basic subcategories in the catalog section- the bose and the t-shirt- and then the bose has two other subcategories. now how to actually go on about to that page. now, after you have added those categories, you're going to click on view online store and you're going to begin editing your online store so you can see over here, this is your online store. you're going to click on edit home page and what you're going to do basically is, once you go on to your home page, you're going to go and you're going to go into your pages. so you're going to click on catalog over here and what you're going to do is you're going to create the pages that you just named over here on your menu item. so we're going to go back into our little editor and what you're going to do is, in the collection section, you're going to add your pages so you can click on over here, click on the collection section and you can see these uh categories are going to be loaded up over here and you're just going to add the pages. so we're going to go back and then we're gonna go into collections, create a template and you're just going to click on add collection and the collection is going to be close. create template. and now in the collections, i have added the bose collection so you can see over here, this collection has been added. now, once you add collections over here, what you can do is go back into your shopify dashboard, go into your product section and then you can see over here, this is an item and what you're going to do is you're going to add the collection for this item. so my product is currently looking like, and what i'm going to do is, if i take a look over here, that i have assigned to collections 0 collections. so in the bow section, what you're going to do is, from your bose, you have your little item over here and what you're going to do is you're just going to go back into your product and then you're going to have a type and product organization and you can see all of these custom fields that we have over here, and you're going to click on browse all or, if you can't find the collection that you created, just add custom type. you can add both and you're just going to make sure that this is added, all of the variants and options. you're going to click on save and now, once you have added all of that, what you're going to do is create the pages. so for that you're going to go back into your dashboard, you're going to click on the online store and then you're going to click on pages over here and once you do that, you're going to click on add page and now i'm going to add the page called bose and then you can click on save over here. and then what you're going to do is, once i've added the bose page, i'm going to go back into my navigation, i'm going to click on main menu and i'm going to click on the catalog. i'm going to add the main menu- those. i forgot to save it previously, but now i'm going to link it to the bose page. so let's say, this is just the bose page, so i'm going to click on add over here and now i'm going to move this up and make it a sub page of catalog, just like that, and now i'm just going to save it over here. and once you have done all of these steps, you're just going to view your online store. this is like a very blank online store. this is just a sample for you to better understand how to do it on your own. but if i click on catalog, i have the subcategory of bose and if i click on bose over here, i have the bose page. this page is called bose and obviously i haven't added any products, but once i add products then i can view them over here. so if i go into my products and if you take a look at your product, what you can do is you can click on over here in your collection section. you can see over here. i've added it to the home page, but what you can do is add more pages as well. so if i go onto the bose collection, you can add that over here as well and you can, you know, add as many variants you want, as many uh options you want of your product. now, just like that, you have your product categories and subcategories in shopify. you can add as many as you want, but i would recommend that you don't go overboard with creating your product categories and subcategories, because if you do, you know it might make your navigation panel a bit too confusing and a bit irritating. but you can add, like all the basic categories that you want, and you can add different active and draft statuses on your product as well. so that is how simple and easy it is for you to create your product categories. so, although shopify is a great ecommerce storefront creator and you can create a beautiful ecommerce storefront and create different product categories and customize your shopify store as much as you like. it is not available for free. so shopify starts at 29 per month, where you can add two staff members in four locations and you have to pay two percent of transactional fees for all payment providers and you have a currency conversion fee of two percent as well and you have all of the basic things that are available on any other e-commerce platform. now the shopify plan, which starts at 49 per month, has up to five staff members, five locations for analysis and professional reports. so that is one of their more pay and like one of the more premium versions, and they only have a transactional fee of one percent. so that is with every shopify version, the higher paid version that you opt for on shopify, the lower transactional fees you have to pay, although you have to pay the same currency conversion free on all three versions. now, on your advanced shopify plan, you have up to 15 staff members, eight locations, fraud analysis reporting, advanced report builders, international pricing and duties and import taxes as well. so that is another plan that you can opt for if you're looking for a higher-end version of shopify. i think for most people, using the basic version and adding your own code and cus.

How to Create Collections & Sub Collections in Shopify (Tutorial)

also guys Poya from ecommerce gold, and in this video I'm gonna be doing another quick Shopify tutorial for you, specifically looking at how to set up collections within the Shopify system. there's a couple of ways we can go about doing this. I'm also going to cover how you can put these collections on the front end of your site in your navigation bar. so with the introduction of the way, let's jump into my computer and get this tutorial started. so the first thing you want to do is you want to sign into your Shopify dashboard now. if you haven't already signed up with Shopify, I'll leave my partner link in the description below so you can go and get a 14-day free trial with the Shopify platform. but if you are already signed up to Shopify, what you want to do is you want to go into products and then you want to go into collections. now, as I said, there are a couple of ways you can sell collections within Shopify, and the first one I'm going to do is a manual collection, because this is arguably the easiest way to set up a collection when you just getting started with Shopify. so we're going to click the Create collection button and we're going to call these men's rings. now the reason why I'm going for men's rings is in my last video I created a few products to show you how to create different products within Shopify, and if you want to go and check that out, I'll leave a link in the card above and also leave a link in the description below. I'll make sure you watch this video first before you go and watch that one. so once you set the ties, look, you can enter a description for the collection if you want to. this does have some SEO benefits, but you don't have to do it. so then you come down to the collection type and, as you can see, there's two different collection types, but for this one we're just going to do a manual collection. so when you've clicked manual collection, it will remove all the options for the automated and then what you can do. if you want, you can edit the SEO for your collection, so you can edit the title or the description- and this is the description that goes in your meta description, which shows up on search results- and you can also edit your url handle. once you've gone through and set up all the SEO, you can also come in and add an image to this collection if you want to, but we're not going to do that for this tutorial- and then we'll click Save. so let's create a collection for men's rings and once you've saved the collection, what would be able to do is then go in and add the products to this collection and you'll be able to search through your products, and you can either start typing it or you can use the Browse feature, and for this I'm going to choose the Browse feature. click on mean Signet rings and add this product to the collection and, as you can see, this product adds to this collection. so once you've added the product, it will automatikally update their collection. you don't have to manually save it. the only reason you click Save is if you actually go through and you're editing the title or description or images or anything like that. when you're just going through and adding products, it automatikally updates it for you. so that's how you create a manual collection: really easy, really simple. you can also go in and do this on a product basis as well if you want to add the products that way to the collection. so we're going to all products will click on men's jewelry coaching, as an example, and when that appears, if you start typing the collections or you holler at the collections box, you'll see all the collections you have available, and for this one, we could add it to men's rings if we want to. this is a useful way to self collections, especially if you can sell collections before you start creating your products, because when you're creating your products, you can just come in and add them to collections this way- really easy way to do it. so that's the manual collections, but what about the automated collections? because these are a little bit more complicated. the reason for this is they work on conditions that you create. so for this one, we're going to do men's watches. once again, we're going to leave everything else blank. we're only going to concentrate on how to set off the actual collection. and when it comes to collections, there are conditions you set yourself and these coming based on a variety of different things that you set up within the Shopify system. so you can do it on product tags, and I'll show you how to set those up in a minute. but there's lots of other things you can do. you can set it up on things within the product title, prototype, the vendor, the price, the weight, inventory levels. there's quite a few different things. you can set them apart, and there's also rules within all of these. so if it's in the product tag, it'll be equal to, but if it's in the product title, for example, it'll be contains or is equal to, and what this means is any of these rules you set up. so for this one, we're going to set it up under product type- is equal to, and we're going to sell watch. so any product type that we set off under the what role will be automatikally added to this collection, and you can set up multiple roles within a collection. so if we wanted to set up this one- so it was men's watches- for less than 100 pound, what would do is we'd add another condition and we'd set this under product price and we'd go: he's less than because we want it under 100 pound, and then we would set it up as 100 pound, and then what they'll do is they'll automatikally add any products that matches these conditions. so any product with the product type of watch and any products that has that product type of watch that is less than 100 pound will automatikally be added to this collection. so what we can do is we can click Save on that one and that will create this collection and, as you can see it's automatikally added the watch to this collection that I created in the last video. so this is a really good way, once you get used to it, of actually having products automatikally added to a collection. I didn't really like this setup to start with, but once I actually got used to it and how to set up these collections and how to use these conditions and rules, it is a really effective way and a really quick way to organize your inventory. and, as you say, there's two options on this one. so if it's all conditions, it means the product must match all these conditions. so with this setup for this collection, it must match watch and be less than 100 pound. briefly, already, under any condition, it be any product that fell into either of these conditions. so to get it accurate and stop any unwanted products fallen into unwanted collections, I think it's better to stik with the all conditions options. it just makes life so much simpler. so that is how you set up a automated collection and you can set up lots of different collections. so what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to create another automated collection to go through this again, and what we're going to call this one is we're gonna call these men's accessories. just change these to the Capitals so it looks a bit better. and so it got men's accessories. it's an automatik lecture and what we're going to have is this: based on a product tag. so the product tag is equal to, and we're going to have men's accessories, so any products that contains this tag men's accessories will appear within this collection. so it will click Save and then that collection is created. now what you'll see here is there's no products added to this collection. this is because I haven't added the tags to the products yet, and there's a couple of ways you can go about adding tags. so you can either do this on an individual basis, so we can click on this product, the watch, and then under product tags here we could add men's accessories if we wanted to, and that would do it on a product by product basis. but there's actually a way you can do this to multiple products at the same time using the product editor within Shopi.

How to make Subcategories in Shopify

this is Ryan from blend commerce, and today I'm going to show you how to create subcategories in trouble for your theme. the theme I'm using is turbo, so I'll be showing you how to create on your collection page like this. I'm going to show you how to fit with things like bracelets and digital option down. to go more specific, I've just removed this from the site to show you from start to finish. so this is what I initially all look like. so there's the catalog. so initially your collection page will look like this and I'm auditioning you how to fit the sidebar with subcategories in it. so we want to do is first is go back to your Shopify dashboard and just go across to products, and then you want to navigate over to collections. so what you want to do is make sure you've got collections of products. so such as previously had a jewelry category and inside that I have necklaces, earrings, bracelets and shaker, and then inside there I had certain selected bracelets. I have the bangle and the charm, and then I'm also going to be showing you how to create earrings over 20 pounds of areas below 20 pounds. so once you've set up these collections, all you need to do now is go back to online store and then go down to navigation. then, once your navigation, just add a new member menu. so this menu- I'm gonna call it the same as I have before- is jewelry, and then just start adding items in. so I'm gonna add in the collection and bracelets, choker earrings and the necklace, so they're safe here. so I leave this page opens. we're going to come back to this. I'm just going to show you I've done. currently, what you want to do is, in a new tax up, right click and press open. in a new tab, open up the themes and then, once you've done that on the first thing, once at those you want to click customize. so the FEMA currently editing- so, as I just loaded this up initially- are shows back in here. so once you're inside the customizer, you just go to the page where you'd like to edit. so for this, this story, I'm going to be adding it to the collection pages. once you're done so, in the sidebar, Jim, to press collection down here and then scroll down to the bottom. I just leave this beside and click add content and then menu. so what this is is adding a sidebar across you to add items, and so the menu I'm going to add in is jewelry, select save. so what that's done is is that's added in the jewelry menu that we just created so you can create anymore. you can feel free to first add content again and press menu and add multiple more down below and it'll start with a list. so now I'm going to show you how to create the subcategories inside them. so what you want to do is go back to the navigation, where you were previously, and a new menu item, one that's going inside of the bracelet, so to add a menu item, the link collection, and I'm gonna type in bangle bracelets. and the next one I'm going to add additionally is collection and charm bracelet. so once you've done this, just press the little hand icon up here and yes, brackets, and drag it up to on top of the bracelet into a little arrow things and then just drop it and what that does is drops it below. so you can do that same thing again with this one: drag it here and just drop it and it pops and below. so once you've done that, you see add menu item appear so you can start adding more menu items. so I'm going to show you again for the earrings, because then you wanted collection, like the earring is 20 pounds or below. press out there, that's on top of the earrings. now this options, Pierce, I'm going to start go through their little niggly collection and then here it's over 20 pounds. and once you've done that and just press save in the top corner and then go back to the shop, figure around your boots that either in the customizer or just a preview of the thing, and just refresh and as you see, it's got little arrows, the edge here you can get down. you navigate through your subcategories now. so here's our bracelets displays, all the bracelet sympathy inside of the he product page and then it's a charm. okay, so all the charm bracelets, bangle, bangle bracelets, then the earrings, all of them is checking your prices below to buy 20 pounds or below and go, or 20 pounds, or a button or something like this one here. if you have a multiple, multiple menus, quite a lot of menus- and can turn on everything, you can turn on toggle sidebar. but what this will do is will create this as in toggle venue so they can list the low and open up specific ones. let us know they have any questions at all. I hope that's been useful. thank you guys.