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How to Move Products from a Collection to Another

Last updated: August 01, 2024
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By Sam Nguyen

CEO Avada Commerce

There are times when you may need to move products from a collection to another when you manage a Shopify store. The task might require your time and patience; therefore you must not ignore this writing.

We will help you figure out how to move products from a collection to another by providing a step-by-step guide to make it SUPER easy for you to follow. Let’s get straight into the details right now. Please do not go anywhere.

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Using manual method

Remove products from a manual collection

To move products from one collection to another, the first thing you might need to do is to remove products from a manual collection. You can follow the simple steps below:

Step 1: Click Collections

In your Shopify admin, browse to the Products section, then click Collections.

Step 1: Click Products > Collections

Step 2: Tap on the collection’s name

Tap on the name of the collection that you intend to update.

Step 2: Tap on the collection's name

Step 3: Tap on the x button

From the Products section, you tap on the x button next to the item that you want to eliminate from your collection, which will not remove it from Shopify.

Add a product to existing collections from its details page

After removing products from a manual collection, you can add a product to one or more existing manual collections in the product’s details page. Check out the following steps to do it:

Step 1: Click All products

In your Shopify admin, head to the Products section, then click All products.

Step 1: Click Products > All products

Step 2: Tap on the item that you want to add

Click the item that you intend to add to a collection.

Step 2: Tap on the item that you want to add

Step 3: Pick one or more existing collections

In the Collections section, pick one or more existing collections.

Step 4: Tap on Save

Tap on Save to add the item to all the chosen collections.

Using automated method

In addition to the manual method, you can use the automated method. More specifically, you can change the contents of an automated collection by adjusting the conditions or by changing an item that does not fit.

Step 1: Click Collections

In your Shopify admin, head to the Products section, then click Collections.

!Step 1: Click Products > Collections

Step 2: Tap on the collection’s name

Tap on the name of the collection that you want to edit.

Step 3: Edit the conditions

From the Conditions section, modify the conditions.

Step 4: Tap on Save

Tap on Save to add relevant items and remove the items that are not suitable.

Using Excelify app

If you are ready to experience an app, then you can try using Excelify to move your products between collections.

Using Excelify app

With the app, you can export all your Automatic Collections and change the Rules in the exported Excel file and import those collections back. The Excelify app will update those collection rules and Shopify will automagically move your items according to new Rules.

Or, you can export all your Products to Excel and modify product data to make them fit the rules conforming to your automatic collections. When you import back the updated products, Shopify will automatically move them to their collections following the automatic collection rules.

Note that you can utilize both methods to swap your items among automatic collections. More importantly, with those imports, it is unnecessary to execute the task of substituting existing products. Your single job is only updating necessary columns for them and importing only the columns that you intend to modify.

Conclusion

In conclusion, moving products from one collection to another will not be a daunting task now. We hope that you can do it smoothly and manage your store on the Shopify platform effectively and efficiently.

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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.