How can I control the display order of products I import

Technical Q&A
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I was wondering if there was a way to specifically control the display order of products uploaded through the import process. Through some basic testing it looks like it effectively works in a last in, first out way. This works well for very small files, but I’m loading my products by category and have 75 to over 400, depending on the category. The order is directionally close, but not in the exact order I expected. Is there a way to better control the display order of the products in the file?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

You can not specify the order of product while import the products. But once you import the product then you need to create the collection and in the collection you can specify the order of product to display. See the attached image.

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3

Thanks for your suggestion, @WebbiMonks . I will give it whirl later today. I tried to load them in reverse order so the last loaded would be first, but it doesn’t display exactly that way.

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That worked. I “assumed” the products were sorted by newest as a default. Changing it to newest did the trick. Thank you!