Shopify will not merchandise the grid for you
Native collection sorting — alphabetical, price, best-selling, newest — fills a page. It does not protect margin, bury dead inventory, or keep a 400-product collection honest after lunch. Manual merchandising works until the catalog, the channels, and the launch calendar outgrow the person dragging tiles.
SortWise is the autopilot for that page. You pick a collection, attach a sorting strategy, and the app writes a manual sort order in Shopify. No theme code. No storefront app embed slowing the grid. Shoppers see a normal collection; you see a merchandising system that runs on a schedule.
Strategies, not a single dropdown
A SortWise strategy is a stack of rules, not one “sort by bestsellers” toggle. Combine availability, inventory, publish date, sales, variant availability, vendor, product type, tags, metafields, and more. If the attribute is in Shopify, it can go in the strategy.
- Pin a launch, then rank the rest on 7-day revenue.
- Push sold-out and backordered items down, then sort in-stock products by margin.
- Treat “new” as a configurable window — 7, 14, or 30 days — using created, published, updated, or a metafield date.
- Reuse a global strategy across collections, or give one collection its own default.
Blend the signals when one is too blunt
Smart Sort combines multiple metrics into one weighted ranking. Give recent revenue more influence than views, or let inventory and margin balance each other, then adjust the weights when the commercial priority changes. For the exceptions, a Custom Rule group handles the exact condition instead of forcing every merchandising idea into a single score.
Save the strategy once and apply it across collections. When the logic changes, update the reusable strategy instead of rebuilding the same sort one collection at a time.
Hourly updates, unlimited sorts
Automated sorts run hourly on every plan, including free. There is no monthly sort meter. You can also fire an on-demand sort when a drop goes live, so a changing collection can respond while the moment still matters.
For busy storefronts, schedule the hourly job in off-peak hours. The collection stays current without competing with checkout traffic, and you can spend your time on the next commercial decision instead of the last one.
Manage the portfolio in one pass
A launch rarely changes one collection. Select several collections, apply a strategy, start or stop sorting, or run the sort together. Bulk controls turn a store-wide merchandising change into one deliberate action instead of a tour through every collection.
Built around the collection page
Search, visual discovery, and product recommendations serve different jobs. SortWise focuses on the work collection merchandisers actually own: the order of products in the grid you already paid to fill. Pair it with inventory rules, AI-generated strategies, and A/B tests when you want the autopilot to prove itself.