How to automate a 'New Arrivals' collection on a single page?

[GaitaCo]

I've seen this topic come up a couple of times, but the answers are not always very clear and as its been a while I wondered if there had been any changes.

I want to create an automated 'New Arrivals' collection. I've seen that this can be done by editing your collection liquid code. I'm confident to tweek these a bit, but worried about changing all of my collections. 

What I want is for one single collection to be set on automation to show the newest item first, this is not a problem. But then for this one collection to either stop showing items after X date, when the collection has reached a certain number of products, or to be one page long only.

Can anybody help me with this?

[jpbertram]

Hey @GaitaCo!

Have you thought about using Parabola for this?

You can set up a flow that looks for new inventory and automatically pushes it to your New Arrivals collection at whatever interval you choose: daily, hourly, etc. The same flow can also remove old items or limit the number of products in the collection.

Let me know if you need help getting started!

JP

[kpvw]

If you are okay with using an app, you can try Advanced Collections - https://apps.shopify.com/advanced-custom-collections - you can create a collection based on products created, updated or published within X number of days, and the app will sync it every hour or so. There is a 7 days free trial period too. Hope this helps.

[Vellir]

For anyone still looking for a solution for this problem, we recently created an app that automatically adds products to a "new arrivals" collection and remove them after X days.

You can try it out for free: https://apps.shopify.com/newr

No coding required.

Also, feel free to message me in private if there's any questions.

[BugShallNotPass]

I've recently created this New Arrivals app that perfectly fits your requirement. It can automatically tag and untag products based on creation or publishing date. You can set up a concrete period of time the products should be considered to be "new". It will automatically remove the tag after a specified period of time.

Try it out and let me know what you think. Reach me out via the support email you can find on the app page if you have any questions.

I'm happy to help you to set up an automated tag-based new arrivals collection if have any issues with that.

[axlycompany]

I know this was several years ago but thought I put this in here in case someone looks for it as I figured out the best way to do this. I can only think Shopify hasn't done this feature because there are so many apps for it. However, there is a work around that I figured out.

Step 1 - Go to product (s) add a date as a tag. This can be the month or actual date 03-0124 for example (any date entered can be used).

Step 2 - Collection you want to use. Choose Automated > Product Tags with Equal to > and the date or month you entered.

For example:

• You uploaded products for March. In the tags you can put "March" or "03-01-24". Then in the New Arrivals Collection, you just add the same tag.
• Then when you upload April products, you add the tag "April" or "04-01-24" and update the date "03-01-24" to "04-01-24". This will automatically remove the old and update the new products.
• You don't even need to worry about going back to the old products to remove the tags unless you want or need to for other specific reasons.

[AV_SL]

This one's a few years and many things have changed.

You can now use Shopify Flow to automate adding and removing product tags for 'new arrivals'.

You can then created an automated collection that uses this tag to show your new arrivals.

Here's a guide I wrote:

https://www.biscuitsbundles.com/blog/how-to-create-an-automated-new-arrivals-collection-with-shopify...

[soulchild37]

To automate "New arrivals" collection, you can set the collection to automated, and set the condition to be "Product tag" equals "new-arrivals".

Then you can install Shopify Flow to automate the addition and removal of tag when a product is created / published, create a workflow with trigger of "Product created", then add an action of "Add tag to product", and set the tag name to "new-arrivals", then add another action of "Wait", and set the time to wait before removing the tag (eg: 30 days), then add another action to remove the tag "new-arrivals" from the product.

After you activate this workflow, when you create a new product, this product will be tagged and added to the new arrivals collection instantly, and after 30 days it will automatically remove itself.

If you would like a step by step tutorial with screenshots on how to create this flow, I have written a tutorial here : https://yagisoftware.com/articles/how-to-create-new-arrivals-collection-in-shopify-using-shopify-flo...

Hope this helps!

Axel