products not showing up in collection page

[alee-takeon]

Hi there, brand new to shopify and this is hopefully an easy fix.  I've created manual collections in my store. I've added them to the menu but when I click on them in the preview none of the products are showing up! it says "Sorry, there are no products in this collection"  and I'm not sure why.  They're definitely in there... Any thoughts?  I am using the Jumpstart theme.

[cynthiasboutiqu]

We cannot figure this out. We have added in every area mentioned and they still will not populate in the collection

[gigi356]

I am not having this issue.

[godfreyokoye]

It is not a collection as the items are all different. When I go to my website, the products do not show. I  have to use the search button to look for products. This is very frustrating. Please help me out.

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[MsYolaB68]

I'm having the same problem. I create the collections but only a few items randomly show up. Everything is in the catalog but not the assigned collection. I don't know how to  fix it. 

[Booktides]

Hi & sorry for the delay. Besides the things already suggested in this discussion, the other fix I discovered was in the product variants. If you name your own variant, that causes problems. It's best to use the given variants. I found 'Style' covers most of my needs.

Besides this, I can suggest not adding tags to the box that pops up regarding collections. Sorry, I can't remember when & where this happens but it's best not to add tags there (though of course do add them within the editing of collections otherwise no products will show up). Hope this helps. If not, do contact Shopify support. They're very good.

[chuksbanor]

Thank you Lizzy, I am new in the business. My problem is that I don't even understand how to set collections. I was able to set navigation but the collection aspect confuses me. Thank your wonderful explanation.

[Karzvdb]

Thanks for the explanation. I have checked all of these things but my products are still not showing up under my collection. I'm not sure why. Is there anything else which could be causing this? 

[Booktides]

Hi Karzvdb. Really sorry to hear that. I can’t think of anything else that
might help myself, except all the usual - making sure the collection
keywords are exactly the same, including same upper/lowercase as on the
listings. Have you been in touch with Shopify? Their online chat is a good
option & I’ve always found them very helpful, even following up with email
afterwards if the issue isn’t resolved. I’d definitely recommend getting in
touch with them. Do hope you can get this sorted out. There’s usually a way
through in the end : )

[AizomeMarketing]

I am having this problem and my product doesn't even show up on my 'all product' page as well as my collection tab. It is labeled as active. Can you help me?

[DaintyStacey]

My productss won’t show in my collections page at all. I have  gone to the navigation page but it doesn’t give me the same options to make changes to my menus   As recommended here.   When I select collections I open each collection and there are no products . I have tried to add  products directly from the  all products page and from the collections page- still nothing appears .  

[asamad90]

Hi Lizzy,

I've got a problem similar but on the newly created collection page,  the products in the auto collection type are not appearing down the conditions (filters). especially after installing some collection apps. can you guide me on what to do?

[TimothyTrimble]

I just wanted to add one more step to Lizzy's response. Be patient. When you update the products, it can take a few minutes for the product to appear on the collection pages. I've noticed as long as 10 minutes when updating a lot of products. So, as an overview of things to check:

• Make sure your Collection Conditions (if there's more than one) is set to Products must match: any condition.
• Make sure the Product Status for the products is "Active".
• Make sure the Product Sales Channel includes "Online Store".
• IMPORTANT! Wait 3-10 minutes for your changes to update before viewing in the Collection Page. 

Once I figured out that last item, all my other frustrations with products showing up went away. You don't need to do an Uncheck and Recheck of the Collection Conditions. You don't need to select the Collection and select "Make Collection Available." All you have to do is check the bullet points above and wait for the changes to kick in. 

[nookalabs-dev]

Hey! I'm having this issue, but none of the "accepted solutions" seem to be an option.

- My Collection has been "up" (but empty) for a few days now

- Items are showing at the backoffice. All good, all active, all available on online store channel.

- Accessing the collection through the URL, no additional filters or tags applied. 

Any help would be appreciated. 

[PartnersInTrust]

I was stumped for a little bit why my products was not showing up in my collection.  First I made sure all my products had the same tags as I have in my collection.  I also made sure each product was active, all have the same sale channels. After doing these things my products still was not showing in my collection.  So when I went to my shop and clicked on my collection name nothing still was there.  So I said I know what I am going to go in navigation and delete my coffee mugs collection and re add it to my  navigation.  So when I added it back I went to link and found my collection and then it pop up the collection name and it automatically fill in the name of my collection.  I didn't used any tags for my collection in navigation.  I save it and then went back to my shop and clicked on coffee mug collection and there was all my products for that collection now showing like they should.  I hope I explained this right and it help you. 

[Angienjohn97]

No, it didn't answer my problem. 

I do not know what happened, but the products wouldn't show up with the link to my collection but it did give me a filter option. When I changed the filter option to all products, things came up. Now for some reason it is all gone and the links are not working. When I click on the collection button, it just takes me to the top of my home page again. It wasn't and isn't linked to the homepage. Nothing changed that i know of that should affect this. 

When I use the side menu, it goes to a product page that has no products on it, and even though I've enabled the filter, there isn't a filter. 

The only think I know is that i deleted Debut, because I'm using the Simple Theme. Is that why I lost everything. 

[Asialovex]

I’m sorry to hear about that I was struggling for the longest to get my products on my shop. You deleting debut should not have Any effect on your products at all because I’m using simple as well and all my products are there. I wish I was there to help but I think The only way we can figure this out is through social media/Internet. If you’d like my Instagram and Snapchat is xasia.lovex.  Or or you can contact me through my email which is modestapparelshop1@gmail.com. 

[c_zagarskas]

No, you are right.

THERE IS A BUG in Shopify and its been reported many times.

THE BUG

When you create a collection "first" (like any sane human) and then you make a rule like "auto add products of X type" and then later you begin to add products, that collection does not update correctly. Everything on the back end will show up, you will be pulling your hair out, and swearing at the Shopify logo. However, you are not broken, Shopify is

THE WAY

Do not create the collection first (like any reasonable human would), instead, first create all your products, then after that, go create the collection.

THE FIX

If you have a collection that is effected by "the bug" (you created a collection first and set a rule for auto adding products) then DELETE that collection and recreate it. Then MANUALLY ADD your products. However, if you have made all your products first, you could try the "auto create" feature. Important note: there is no way to change a collection from "auto" into "manual" you have to delete it and start over.

THE PATCH

Well... if we could get Shopify to come here, read this chain and take the issue seriously I bet they would fix it. But we would need like 1000 people to complain, otherwise they give the brush off. Which I understand, they are a large company after all. And as a developer, I tend to "not believe" most users there is a problem because 90% of the time the user is broken, lol, not the system. But in closing, this time, you are right and the system has a bug.

[Wolfe8131]

This solution still does not work... Very frustrating. I have tried every "solution"...

[c_zagarskas]

The solution is "you have to delete the category" and then "remake" it most of the time.

Shopify runs on a CDN, so I have found that "sometimes" if I wait 15min, clear my cache and check from another browser the category will update.

However, if you want to "see the new products in the category now, as in asap" then delete it, re-make it, re-add products. works every time.

alas, yes, it's a PIA to do this, but its better than yelling at the screen.

I would encourage you (and everyone who lands here) to send this thread to shopify support and say "look, its a real problem, please fix it"

The real solution is for shopify to disable the CDN and the cache for admins who are logged in, and then investigate the product category bug. I suspect that there is a CRON job in the database that does not sync up products on the front end till 1am or something...

At some point in time I will make a video "proving" it's a problem. I would encourage you to record your screen and post a video on screencast.com using camtasia or some kind of screen recorder.

till then, just delete the category and recreate it. (yea, sucks, trust me I know and I hate doing that too, but it only takes 5 min)

Another "hotfix" that works for me is to UNPUBLISH products 1 at a time (not through the bulk editor) and then save them, close them, open them, and REPUBLISH them: one at a time. Sometimes that will kick them into the category properly. It should be noted that when I "bulk publish" products from the "bulk editor" also causes this "bug" where they do not show up in a category. Also utter nonsense we have to do this, it should "just work" properly. Alas, this is the nature of a bug in the system. This leads me to believe that the "bulk editor" is broken in some way and does not properly publish products (unless you save them 1 at a time)

[Wolfe8131]

Let's all contact support and get this fixed. Email them here: https://help.shopify.com/en/questions#/contact/email

Tell them that there is a collection glitch that causes products to not show up on a collection page. Link this thread for Shopify staff to reference: 

https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-Discussion/products-not-showing-up-in-collection-page/m-p/11...

We pay a lot of money for Shopify! It should work!

[Angienjohn97]

I ended up figuring out that when I used a third party inventory manager for syncing my ebay store with me shopify account, it ended up deleting all my tags and therefore the only way to fix it was to go back into all my products and add tags that were linked to my collections. I've fixed it now but am not sure it won't happen again. 

[Fraenck]

Hi Lizzy, I've followed all the steps you've described but the product is still not showing under the collection. What is going on there?

1. It is active on all channels

2. It has the right tags (uppercase, lowercase etc.)

3. It shows up in the backend when looking at the collection

4. It does NOT show when opening the collection on the website

This is quite frustrating. I don't want to resort to manual collections if I don't have to. Hope there is a (permanent) solution for this.

[gigi356]

Problem solved

[lealjohn]

NO this solution doesn't work. There are several people here commenting, who marked this as topic as solved?
I read all the thread and tried all the possible "solutions". Spotify has to fix this BUG, it is not a user error.

[c_zagarskas]

I agree. 

I have all kinds of "theories" as to why this bug happens from the Cache, browser cache, server cache, Shopify CDN to database CRON jobs... whatever...

alas... all my "theories" all fall by the wayside.

The simple facts for us on any shop we manage are as follows:

1. Yes, there is indeed a BUG in the "collection" process
2. Sometimes it gets fixed by "waiting" a few days
3. Other times nothing happens
4. When we have to launch a new collection and it needs to be done ASAP:
   we ALWAYS end up deleting the "auto-add" collection,
   making a new collection,
   manually adding the products (immediately, in the same action as creating the collection)
   and hoping it works.

We have plans to "capture" this problem in a screen recording next time it happens.

I would encourage you to do the same using something like Camtasia, record the screen and show it to Shopify to say "look. see? its real" and if enough people do that I think they will address it.

[cynthiasboutiqu]

Thanks for the insight.  We did add this collection and contents manually from the beginning.  We followed someone's advise about reviewing Tags and sure enough when we deleted one and corrected a spelling error on another it corrected the collection problem.  Why? I did not realize tags were so important on our end.  I thought they were there mostly for customer search.

I plan to review other product tags to see if that is why they show up oddly in one collection but not another re: dress instead of dresses sort of thing.

Thanks for the info as moving forward I will watch 

[sierra_warwick]

Hi, I was not the one who originally asked you this but thank you. This was the exact problem I was having and your instructions fixed it 🙂

[abdulhananzahid]

hello dear i have a issue

[SuzanneTrueman1]

Hi I have checked navigation and availability date in online store and still my product I have just created is not showing.  Can you help?

[Izzyaccess]

Thanks

[CoS1]

Hi Lizzy,  I've tried both but no change 

[CoS1]

I have a promotion on that specific product that is not showing. Customer might thinks it's a scam 

[elijah103]

I was having the same issue but then i tried the second solution and it worked. For anyone who has this problem, try checking your particular product on the products tab. click on it. to the right where it says "SALES CHANNELS AND APPS", click the manage button and then select online store. Your products should immediately appear

[upserve]

Yes, just forgot to add to Online Store

Thx

[AndreaLee]

This helped me after being stumped for days!! Thanks so much!!!  I have to say, this seems like poor design and something I NEVER would have guessed would be the issue! Would highly recommend fixing this 😬