Deleting automated collections

[Abbey14]

When selling items and when I put up a new product it gives a ton of collections I don’t have on my shop for it to fall under. I do not want these suggested collections to show. How do I get rid of them and only shop the ones I have available on my site?

[JoesIdeas]

Automated collections are collections that products get added to automatically, because they have a certain criteria. For example, you could have a collection called Sale that automatically puts all products where price is lower than compare price. If you create a new product and that condition is met, it would automatically go into that collection.

If that doesn't answer your question, I would include screenshots to illustrate exactly what you're referring to, that may help someone who has seen your problem provide a solution.

[Abbey14]

Hello Joesideas,

Is there a work around so this does not happen? When the item gets put in the suggested category it does not show up on my store. 

thank you

[JoesIdeas]

Hmm, the only thing I can think of is if you add a condition to exclude products.

For example, maybe you add a condition to the collection(s) like Product Tag Equals "Some Tag".

Then all the products you want to be eligible to show in that collection you add that new tag.

When you create a new product, it won't have any tags, so it would not be eligible to show in that collection.

As for displaying on your website, you could hide products from the collection using liquid code in your theme (talk to any Shopify developer that focuses on theme editing and they should be able to help you out).

Hope that helps.