Looking for an App to move products to specific collections based on keywords.

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Topic summary

Request: Automate assigning newly imported products (from a supplier’s “new arrivals”) into “What’s New,” then route products into specific collections based on keywords in their descriptions (e.g., “Cardigan” → “Cardigans”).

Key guidance: Avoid using description keyword matching because it can cause false positives/negatives (e.g., “new” matching “renewal”). Prefer using product tags to drive logic.

Proposed solutions:

  • Use Shopify Automated Collections (rule-based collections) based on tags or other reliable fields.
  • Use Shopify Flow (Shopify’s automation tool): trigger “product-added-to-store” and action “add-product-to-collections” to auto-assign products to the right collections.

Outcome: No third‑party app was recommended. Consensus leans toward native Shopify features (tags + Automated Collections or Shopify Flow). The thread has suggestions but no confirmed resolution from the requester.

Summarized with AI on January 20. AI used: gpt-5.
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Generally attempt to use tags to aid organization, when possible avoid using words in product descriptions in conditional logic as it is too easy to get false positives or false negatives. i.e.

if description contains “new” will match “renewal”

Either use an automated collection

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/collections/automated-collections

or use shopify flow’s trigger product-added-to-store for the add-product-to-collections action

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-flow/reference/triggers/product-added-to-store

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-flow/reference/actions/add-product-to-collections