Filtering system for collection that has over 1000 products

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user discovered that product filters are not displaying on a collection page containing over 1,000 products, which triggers Shopify’s default limitation.

Two filtering approaches exist:

  1. Storefront filters - Automatically generated by Shopify based on price, availability, options, and metafields. These are hidden by default when collections exceed 1,000 products and can be managed via Online Store > Navigation.

  2. Tag-based filters - Custom-coded filters that work with any collection size by assigning tags to products, though they require manual implementation.

Proposed solutions:

  • Implement custom tag-based filtering through code development
  • Use third-party filtering apps that don’t impose product count limitations
  • Multiple respondents recommended specific filter apps as alternatives

The discussion remains open with no indication the user has selected a solution.

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Website: https://ohanamoderndecor.com/collections/living-room-bedroom

i’m encountering an issue where filters won’t show on this collection. I found out it’s because the collection has more than 1000 products in it. Is there a way to alter the code to make the filter show?

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Hello @Sensei_Ryan ,

Based on your query we would suggest you the below solution.

We can use 2 types of filters on Shopify:-

  1. Storefront filters
  2. Tag-based filters

Storefront filters: These filters are created automatically by Shopify on the basis of availability, price, product options, metafields, etc.

This can be enabled from your Shopify admin Online store > Navigation.

As a default feature, If your collections have more than 1000 products then these filters will be hidden.

All new 2.0 themes come with these filters by default.

Tag-based filters: These are custom filters that are created through custom code. For this, you need to assign tags to products and on the basis of tags, you can filter the collection. It will even work with collections exceeding 1000+ products.

So, to overcome the 1000+ product filter issue either you need to use a third-party app or you can have custom tag-based filters.

For more information please check this link.: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/customizing-themes/storefront-filters#filter-products

Hope it was helpful. Let us know if you need any help with your Shopify Store.

Regards,

Team CedCommerce

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Shopify default filter and search have some limitation as you said. It might be more complicated if there are more items and tags.

To overcome this issue, you may want to use a filter app like this one https://apps.shopify.com/ultimate-search-and-filter-1. There is no limitation like 1000 products per collection or tags, etc.

Hope that it helps

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You can use our app to get around this, we don’t have filter limits on large collections.