How to Create an Updated Products Collection

[wrestlingfigdb]

My Shopify site is more of a database than a storefront (https://wrestlingfiguredatabase.com/). As a result, my visitors are typically concerned with a few things: 1) new items that are added, 2) new information (metadata, pictures, etc.) added to existing items. Situation 1 was an easy fix, but I haven't been able to figure out use case 2, despite lots of searching (these boards, Youtube, etc.).

I am looking for help creating a Collection that displays the most recently updated products. Essentially I am trying to replicate the Updated-->Newest First sorting available at the Products level within a Collection.

I'm fairly savvy with code, so may be able to make this work if that's necessary. Can you help me solve this mystery?

[StevenDunneDev · Accepted solution]

This isn't something that can be done out of the box. It gets really complicated if you want to code it yourself so it might be easier to use pre-existing apps.

You'd need a product metafield, a webhook or flow (now that we can access metafields in flow for the Summer '24 edition) to update that metafield with a timestamp each time a product is updated. Then you'd need some code/or app to create a smart collection that is sorted by that time stamp

Hope that helps give you the right direction

All the best

[wrestlingfigdb]

Thank you very much, Steven. Truly appreciate the thorough and insightful response. It's not a huge priority, so I may push this one to the backlog.