"Sort by" and market prices

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Main issue: Sorting products by price on collection/Product Listing Pages (PLPs) does not respect per‑market price overrides set via Shopify Markets. Sorting uses the product’s base price, so the displayed order appears incorrect to shoppers seeing market‑specific prices.

Latest update: Shopify Support confirmed this is a known platform limitation/bug. Fixed prices and price adjustments are ignored by the “Sort by price” feature. No official workaround is currently available; developers are aware and tracking it.

Suggested approaches:

  • Implement custom sorting via Shopify’s AJAX API.
  • Add custom sorting logic in collection.liquid/collection-template.liquid.
  • Use a third‑party app for advanced sorting/filtering.
  • Contact Shopify Support to increase visibility and priority.

Additional note: A participant reports resolving it with custom code (details not provided) and offers assistance.

Artifacts: Two screenshots illustrate the mismatch between sort order and market-adjusted prices.

Status: Unresolved platform limitation; viable paths involve custom development or apps. Key open question: timing for an official fix from Shopify.

Summarized with AI on December 13. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi there, apologies if this has been asked before, I couldn’t find a relevant thread.

I have a store where we sometimes need to override product prices per market. This works well using Market Settings. However, we’ve noticed that the new prices are not taken into account when sorting products by price in ascending or descending order on Product Listing Pages (PLPs).

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Has anyone experienced this issue before and found a solution? It feels like a potential bug, but I couldn’t find anything about it in the documentation.

Any help appreciated thank you very much!

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Hi,

  1. Custom sorting with Shopify’s AJAX API
  2. Collection.liquid or collection-template.liquid add custom sorting logic
  3. Uses an app for advanced sorting and filtering
  4. Connect with shopify support
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So it seems like a known limitation/bug on the platform. This is from support:

It looks like a known limitation at the moment that our Developers are aware of.

The sort by price feature on the storefront will be done based on the base price only, any fixed price/price adjustments will be ignored, so the sort will appear to be incorrect based on the prices the customer/merchant sees on the storefront. So essentially, sorting by price ignores fixed prices.
There doesn’t seem to be any known workaround at the moment, but I’m checking the report they have on this limitation, to see if there are any recent updates.

Anyone having similar issues please raise it with support, it’ll get better chances at getting resolved.

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Hey @APStudio ,

Shopify already knows about this issue. I don’t know how long it will take to resolve this issue. LOL!!
I resolved the issue with custom coding.

Let me know if I can assist you.

Thanks in advance.