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How to Change the Availability of a Collection on Shopify

Last updated: August 01, 2024
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By Sam Nguyen

CEO Avada Commerce

When you’ve manually created a collection, you can totally decide whether to publish or hide it from your active sales channels at sometimes. That’s why you know how to change the availability of a collection would be useful. Here are some easy steps you can take to change the collection’s availability setting:

How to change the availability of a collection

Step 1: Open Collection section

After logging in your Shopify account, look at the left-hand side of the screen, click Products. There are some sections here. Make sure that you choose Collection.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

Step 2: Choose a collection

You see all your collections here. Click what you want to change the availability. As you can see, I choose Summer Collection.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

Step 3: Change collection availability

In this step, there are three ways we can carry out:

The first way we can change the availability is to select Edit collections. There will be lots of sections that you can check or uncheck to meet your requirement. Otherwise, you can also click X beside each you want it to be hidden. Such as I uncheck the Availability- Facebook and Availity - Point of Sale. Then click Save to finish your work.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

The second way is to click Action. For example, I choose to Make collections unavailable. You can choose any section that you want to. Then I uncheck some of them to have it unavailable for such as Facebook and Point of Sale.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

Finally, click Make collections available/unavailable to complete.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

The third way that we can do is click the collection. You will see Sales channels on the left of the screen. Select Manage to change the availability of the collection.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

After checking to show availability or unchecking to show unavailability, tap Done.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

Then, scrolling down and select Save or else there will be a notification remind you of unsaved changes, you can click Save to save all you’ve done.

how to change the availability of a collection on desktop

To change the availability on iPhone (Click here)

  • Step 1: Make sure you login your Shopify account. Then select Products in the bottom of your screen and choose Collections.

    how to change the availability of a collection on iphone
  • Step 2: All your collections will appear. Select one of them that you want to change availability.

    how to change the availability of a collection on iphone
  • Step 3: For example, I choose Summer Collection. Then take a look at the right-hand side on the top, you select Edit.

    how to change the availability of a collection on iphone
  • Step 4: Tap Sales channels to show which is unavailable or not.

    how to change the availability of a collection on iphone
  • Step 5: After that, you will see the selections which you can change the availability of the collection. You can change which you intend to. Slide to the right if you want it available and slide to the left if you want the opposite thing. As you can see, I choose Online Store to be available and Facebook, Point of Sale to be unavailable.

    how to change the availability of a collection on iphone
  • Step 6: Tap the Back button to return and click Save to have it done.

    how to change the availability of a collection on iphone

To change the availability on Android (Click here)

  • Step 1: Log in your Shopify account. Then go to Products and select Collections.

  • Step 2: Choose one of the collections that you want to change the visibility.

  • Step 3: As you can see, there is a pencil symbol on the screen. Click that button to change the visibility of the collection.

  • Step 4: In this step, make sure that you click Sales channels and decide which collection to be hidden or not.

  • Step 5: Select the Back button to return the collection details screen and then tap the check mark to finish your work.

Summary

In short, this guide just takes you for a few minutes to change the availability of a collection on Shopify. I hope you find it useful. If it does, please visit other guides which we write to help you know how to use Shopify better.

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Sam Nguyen is the CEO and founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore. He is an expert on the Shopify e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Sam loves talking about e-commerce and he aims to help over a million online businesses grow and thrive.

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