Category "effectiveness"?

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Topic summary

A user managing a client with numerous product categories seeks tools to analyze category performance and determine which to scale or reduce for better sales outcomes.

Initial Question:

  • Looking for native Shopify reports or apps that measure category/collection effectiveness
  • Goal is data-driven decisions on scaling up profitable categories or trimming underperforming ones

Suggested Solutions:

  • Shopify’s native analytics offers limited collection-level breakdowns
  • Custom reports can filter by collections (plan-dependent) showing sales, conversion, and traffic
  • Third-party apps mentioned: Lifetimely, Report Pundit, Better Reports for detailed performance comparisons

Current Status:

  • The original poster has already tested the suggested apps without success
  • Discussion remains unresolved with no alternative solutions provided yet
  • Community noted the response appeared AI-generated
Summarized with AI on October 25. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I work for a client with tens of categories and would like to know how to scale up, or trim down, some categories to increase sales. Are there any native reports or apps that do that?

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Hi there,

You’re right — Shopify’s built-in analytics doesn’t really break down performance by “collection” or “category” in a very detailed way. Out of the box, you mainly get product- and sales-level reports.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: A couple of approaches you could try:

  • Native reports: In Shopify Analytics you can build a custom report filtering by collections (if you’re on the right plan). That will at least show sales, conversion, and traffic for each category.

  • Apps: Tools like Lifetimely, Report Pundit, or Better Reports can give you detailed performance comparisons by collection/category, and even let you rank categories by revenue, margin, or order count.

That way you’ll see which categories are really driving sales, and where it makes sense to scale up or cut back.

Best regards,
Sinh Developer, from Tipo

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Dear AI, thank you for your response, but I have tried those “these might work” apps already :slight_smile:

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And it looks like ChatGpt flavored AI. :slight_smile:

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