Seperate product cataloges

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A store owner wants to separate photography wall art products from workshop offerings, keeping the main catalog focused on wall art while having a dedicated page for workshops.

Suggested Solutions:

  • Collections & Tagging: Create separate collections for “Wall Art” and “Workshops,” tag products accordingly, and display these collections in the site menu. Most themes support this natively.

  • Homepage Customization: Adjust the homepage to feature only wall art products while workshops remain accessible via their own collection page.

Advanced Considerations:

One contributor notes that creating truly separate “stores within stores” isn’t native Shopify behavior—site-wide search will still show all products regardless of collection. For stricter separation, options include:

  • Shopify Plus B2B features
  • Content gating apps like Locksmith to restrict product visibility
  • Custom theme development or advanced customizations
  • Apps that control product display based on customer groups or storefront logic

Status: The discussion provides multiple viable approaches, with basic collection separation being the simplest solution for most cases.

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I have a photography wall art store in development at the moment. I predominately sell framed wall art, however I also conduct photography workshops. Is it possible for me to seperate out the art work products from the workshop products? as I want my main catalog of products to be only the wall art. I also want a workshop page where all my available workshops are listed and can be purchased.

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I am pretty sure I haven’t clearly got this but from what I understand you can create different collections for both kind of products.

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Hi,

Hope this will help.

  • Tag each product with its type (Wall Art or Workshop)
  • Group them into Collections
  • Show those collections in site menu
  • Adjust your homepage to only show wall art if you want
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Hello @justinsloan ,

This feature is by default available with every theme.

You have to create 2 collections ‘wall art’ and ‘work shop’ and while creating a product each time select respective collection for it.

like if the product you are adding a ‘wall art’ product select collection ‘wall art’ for it same for other collection.

In this way products will be categorised as you want.

Regards
Guleria

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Hi @justinsloan :waving_hand: Creating stores within stores isn’t a native behavior.

aside from just using collections, or B2B features only available with shopifyPlus plans.

So things like onstore search will show each set of products in the stores search results if there’s any keyword match

etc etc etc.

You’d need a theme specifically built for this or advanced customizations for an existing theme.

To DIY you’d burn the time researching things like “wholesale retail” customizations.

Or a content gating app like locksmith with custom setup, and also theme customizations.

e.g. https://www.locksmith.guide/tutorials/more/restricting-customers-to-a-specific-collection

https://www.locksmith.guide/tutorials/more/hiding-products-from-product-grids

etc.

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