Any update if we can customise the URL structure for /products/ and /collections/ ?

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Topic summary

Current Limitation:
Shopify does not currently support customizing the base URL structure (e.g., changing /products/ to /courses/ or /collections/ to /course-library/). Users can only modify the content that appears after these standard prefixes.

Workaround Solution:
The only available method is implementing URL redirects:

  • Navigate to Shopify Admin → Content → Menus → URL redirects
  • Create redirects mapping old URLs (with /products/ or /collections/) to new custom URLs (like /course-library/)
  • This allows custom URLs to display while maintaining Shopify’s underlying structure

Use Case:
The original poster wants to migrate their store from another platform without needing to redirect every individual product and collection page, but this native customization remains unavailable.

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I’d like to know if a recent release now allows us to customize the label of the standard URL structure. I want to replace /products/ with /courses/ and /collections/ with /course-library/ to migrate my store without redirecting every product and category.

Thank you!

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Hi @liz_elearning

Please note here that so far, it is not available to change the URL structure from /product/ to a specific name like /course-library/ directly; you can only change the URL content after /products/, /collections/, /pages/.

I agree with the idea from @Agbemi-ola here. If you would like to make URLs display like /course-library, you have to do URL redirections. You can read the steps below to make redirections properly:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Content-Menus.

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  1. Click the URL redirects option in the top right corner.

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  1. Click the Create URL redirect button.

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  1. In the URL redirect page, enter the old URL including /collections/ or /products/ in the Redirect from option and the new URL containing your customized one, like /course-library/ inthe Redirect to option. In this way, your store page will display a customized URL rather than the Shopify standard URL.

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For more details about URL redirects, you can check this article from Shopify Help Center directly. Thank you!

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