Hiya, Had an interesting query from a client (which surprinsgly I didn’t know the answer to!) With regards to Collection Sorting, what algorithim is used for ‘Best Selling’. There’s nothing in the documentation, and nothing with a solid confirmed answer online. e.g. is the Time Frame used for ‘Be…

Hey, @Ceri-Waters . Elias here with Shopify Support. That’s a great question! The algorithm used for determining the ‘Best Selling’ order is based on the all-time number of orders that include the product. If you’d like to see a breakdown for the sorting options, you can find them on our guide her…

Thanks! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello Elias, how to make “Best Selling” sorting based on, let’s say the period from the last 7,14,30 days etc.?

Hello, @Egle . Thank you for joining the thread! I understand you’re looking to sort your collections, specifically for the best selling category, using different time periods. While there isn’t a way to do this at the moment, I’d be happy to pass your suggestion along to our development team. If …

Hello I have a similar question. How do I sort by best-selling by default without a collection? I’ve chosen to have my products under the shop now button. Thank you Shane

Hello, @DOGSHT . Thank you for joining the thread! You can add “?sort_by=best-selling” to the end of your store’s URL for the default collection (eg. https://shop.myshopify.com/collections/all?sort_by=best-selling ). However, you will also need to change the link for the default collection in your n…

I already did that changing Featured to Best Selling but I don’t know why it keeps going back to Featured.

Hey, @Rhowze . Thank you for joining the thread. The sorting presets for the collections doesn’t appear to have a Featured option, so I’m not sure if we’re referring to the same thing. Here’s a screenshot for the list of the sorting presets: [23-35-c4cub-60xed] If you are experiencing an issue …

Hi Elias, Hoping you can help me. I have a Best Sellers collection, which is sorting correctly on the set-up page. However, that sorting order is not displaying on the store page. Any guidance to you can offer to fix this is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Randi [Screen Shot 2023-08-31 at 8.01.26…

Hey, @randipants . Welcome to this thread! If you’ve just changed the sorting order in the Shopify admin, then it could take a moment for the changes to be reflected on the storefront. Can you confirm whether this issue is still persisting on your end? If the sorting order isn’t reflecting on the…

How does the 'Best Selling' sort option work in collections?

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Ceri-Waters September 30, 2020, 7:09am 3

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How does the 'Best Selling' sort option work in collections?

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