My website is www.lothaire.fr
I’m trying to make it easier for my husky customers to find which clothes we have in XL and up.
How would I build a collection that shows all items in my stores that have those sizes ?
Hey @LothaireBordeau
Sounds like a handy collection to have! It would certainly make it easy for customers to browse all products in those sizes.
One way you could achieve this is by creating an Automated Collection. When you create an automated collection, you can specify the exact conditions that need to be met for a product to be included in the collection. For example, in order to only include your products that are size XL and up you could potentially use conditions such as:
- ‘product tag is equal to XL’ + ‘product tag is equal to XXL’
- ‘product title contains XL’
- ‘variants title contains XL’
- ‘product type is equal to XL+ clothes’
In order for those conditions to work however, you would need to ensure that the various bits of information would actually match the products in question. So for example if you used the ‘product tag is equal to XL’ condition, you would need to make sure that all of your products in size XL have the tag ‘XL’ applied to them. The great thing about automated collections is when you eventually add new products in the future, as long as you add the relevant information to the product pages they will automatically be added to the collection! That reduces the workload of manually adding products to collections.
Your store looks amazing by the way! You have included some excellent content there. Have you considered also making a ‘Sale’ automated collection? It would be a handy way to communicate all of your products that are on sale and encourage a higher average order value. You could potentially include the sale collection in your main menu navigation to make it easily accessible. We have a tutorial that you can check out for this here.
Hello !
Thank you for the thorough explanation. There’s a problem though.
Let’s use a blue Ralph Lauren Oxfort shirt as an example. Say I have, in stock, one of each size from S to 3XL.
It appears in the collection. Good. That’s what I want.
But if all the large sizes are bought, the item still remains in the collection, right ? That’s because the item is still is stock, even if not at the sizes I’m trying to promote.
Hey @LothaireBordeau
Thanks for coming back with the extra info!
Yep I do understand what you mean. When you create a collection and add products to it, the products will show in stock on the collection page if there are any variants still available for the product. The customer would need to click into the product to see the variants that are in-stock and available to purchase. This would be standard behaviour for collection pages as technically the products are still available.
It sounds like you want the products to show out of stock on the collection page, when the sizes L and above are sold out right?
The first thing that comes to mind for this is you could create new duplicate products for the large size variants only, and add those into the collection. Then, the stock will only show those sizes and when they are all sold out it will indicate that the entire product is out of stock (the exact layout and appearance of the products on the collection page will depend on your theme). However, depending on the amount of products you have, and how you manage your inventory system this solution might not be feasible.
There may be some apps that will help you with this too. I found one on the Shopify App Store called Variator that looks like it allows you to treat variants as separate products - perhaps that will be beneficial for your use case. You could reach out to the developers with your questions before installing the app by clicking into the Support tab on the app page. A couple of other apps that look interesting are:
Shopify just added this function by allowing automated collections to pull data from variant Metafields
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/custom-data/metafields/automated-collections