How to Sort by Best-Selling Products on Shopify
Updated August 7, 2023.
Organizing your products in your Shopify store is essential to making shopping easy and streamlined for your customers. One effective way to achieve this is by sorting your products according to their popularity and showcasing your best-selling items prominently. Just like in a physical store, a messy and complicated layout can put off customers and make it challenging for them to find what they need. By implementing a proper sorting strategy, like some of those listed below, you can enhance the user experience and increase sales:
- Manual order selection
- Best-selling products
- Highest to lowest prices
- Lowest to highest prices
- Newest to oldest date
- Oldest to newest date
» Use these tips to organize your Shopify products effectively or sort products automatically by changing the default sort settings on Shopify
Benefits of Sorting by Best-Selling Products on Shopify
Sorting your products based on bestsellers in a Shopify bundle provides several benefits for your e-commerce business:
- Increased Sales You attract new customers who may make unplanned purchases after seeing popular items.
- Improved Customer Satisfaction Customers tend to trust products that others have trusted.
- Better Product Visibility Showcasing your range and helping customers discover different products. Sorting by best-selling products will give your customers a broader view of your other products—especially if you have a multi-location inventory.
- Marketing and Restocking Insights You are keeping track of bestsellers for marketing and inventory management purposes.
How Do You Sort by Best-Selling Products?
To sort by best-selling products, follow these steps based on your perspective:
- You are a competitor Go to the built-in best-selling sort for all Shopify collections. Then insert the URL parameters sort_by=best-selling into the collection URL. You can also see all the products in the store: /collections/all—and when you combine the two, you get the top sellers of all the products: /collections/all?sort_by=best-selling.
- You are the store owner If you are happy for your customers to view your best sellers, you can show the Sort by drop-down menu on your collection pages. You will need to review and change your theme settings to get this implemented and working.
- You are a customer Simply sort your search using the drop-down menu. Happy shopping!
» Need extra help with your store? Look at the top apps every Shopify seller needs
Can Best-Selling Products Be Hidden?
Yes, it's possible to hide best-selling products on Shopify to prevent competitors from gaining insights into your strategies. However, careful inventory forecasting becomes essential in such cases.
There are two methods to hide your bestsellers:
1. Use Javascript
It is quick to set up but can be easily bypassed if the user disables Javascript.
2. Customize Your Shopify
This method involves creating a custom version of your Shopify All collection to control what viewers see. It is the first place most competitors will go, which makes efficient Shopify inventory management a much-needed skill. You need to modify your All collection so that viewers only see what you want them to see, and they see your products in the order that you chose for them.
» Follow this easy step-by-step guide to hide out-of-stock items
Maximize Sales and Customer Satisfaction With Smart Product Sorting
As an e-commerce business owner, it's important to be efficient with your time and resources. Sorting products manually can be daunting, especially if you have a large inventory. Fortunately, Shopify stores have access to many apps that can help simplify sorting your products with just one click.
Egnition's Bestsellers reSort is designed to use an extensive set of rules to sort and organize products within collections automatically. It's truly a game-changer in the world of e-commerce. With this feature, you can easily manage your inventory and ensure that your best-selling products are always at the top.
Out-of-Stock Police allows you to push and/or hide products that are temporarily out of stock without losing organic traffic. You can easily manage out-of-stock products. Or, even allow the product to be out-of-stock for X days (pushed to the bottom) if that works for your business.
Using these apps can save you a lot of time and effort, which you can use to focus on other aspects of your business, like marketing, customer service, and product development. So if you want to streamline your product management process, check out the various apps in the Shopify App Store.
Embrace the power of automated sorting today and watch your e-commerce business thrive with increased sales and happier customers.
