Preview a collection sort before it goes live

Siftori’s preview shows what a sort would do to a Shopify collection before anything changes in your store. Nothing is written to Shopify until you confirm Apply this order.

Reading the preview

Press Apply Sort on a collection page. Before anything is applied, the Sort preview dialog shows the collection in its proposed order, the order the sort would produce. In a collection of more than 100 products, the dialog lists the first 100 rows and the line above the list tells you the collection’s total. On each row:

• An arrow badge shows how many positions the product would move up or down from where it is now.
• Pinned marks products held in place by a pin.
• Sold out marks products Siftori counts as sold out.

If the proposed order matches the current order, the preview says so and offers no confirm button. Nothing will move.

Good to know

• Apply this order sorts the whole collection, not only the products shown in the preview.
• The preview refreshes product data from Shopify first, so it reflects current inventory and prices, but it never changes your storefront order.
• Save your changes first: while the page has unsaved edits, Apply Sort is disabled, so what you preview is always what’s saved.
• Cancel closes the dialog without touching anything. Apply this order makes the proposed order live.
• Applying takes the collection over from Shopify’s own sort order if it is on one. Pressing Apply Sort is an explicit request, so Siftori sets the collection to Manually and applies your order.
• Every applied sort is recorded in the sort history, where each run shows its order with the same movement arrows, and a recorded order can be restored.