@Sambelina I noted this elsewhere in this thread but it’s not immediately visible given the number of comments.
I developed Simple File Manager for precisely this purpose. You can immediately begin organizing your files with directories and even upload your existing directory structure. Your file names are also updated based on the directories they’re in so that you can easily look them up in the Shopify Products page.
Here are a couple of tutorials I’ve written to help you get the most out of the app:
Shopify needs a media manager . It is so weird that there isn’t any. This is a very basic feature. Unless you have only a few media files you can get very disorganized quickly. Folders and subfolders and Tagging of files is urgently needed
Thanks for your explanation, but I strongly disagree. The views is just a bad half-baked solution to find files specially if you have thousands of them. Search for tags would be a much better one and organize them in folders with automatic rules. All the files organization of Shopify in the files section is very primitive and something they should be working on for version 3. Right now it is really bad.
I know Sopify is not going to want to hear this, but I have a big project ahead of me and, after researching the available apps, I think I’m going to get a free DropBox account to upload my files. Then I can just link to them (they’re PDFs so they will open in a new window), and manage them in DropBox. The images are fine in Shopify for me, it’s the documents that go with the products that I would do this for.
It’s 2025, and while we were excited about Shopify’s e-commerce focus, we’re surprised to find that there’s still no built-in way to organize assets. The only option seems to be paying for yet another monthly subscription just to manage files efficiently.
We’re already looking at multiple paid add-ons, and now we need to add another one for something as basic as file management? We recently migrated from WIX, but at this point, we’re questioning if it’s even worth it—WIX offers a native file manager by default.
Is there a plan to introduce this functionality, or is the expectation that users continue relying on third-party solutions?
Same issue here. And now its more than a year later. We wanted to switch from Wix and researched all existing e-commerce platforms—Shopify came out on top so we made the switch. Now I start building and find that they don’t even have a basic file management folder system!? What is this, 1992??
The Files section of Shopify is still quite rudimentary in terms of organising. “Views” are essentially saved filters rather than folders, so you can’t manually drag files into them as you can with a file manager. Many merchants get around this by pre-organizing files by using a consistent file naming before upload such as product-category-color.jpg, which makes the search a lot easier. You can also narrow down results by file type or upload date, but real folder organization is not integrated, yet.