The Shopify Solutions Podcast
Want to get the most out of your Shopify business? Listen to the Shopify Solutions Podcast to get concrete examples and recommendations on how to build and grow your eCommerce business. Hosted by Scott Austin, owner of JadePuma, a Shopify-focused agency in San Diego, California. Scott has decades of e-commerce experience with the biggest companies and the smallest stores and everything in between.
The Shopify Solutions Podcast
Episode 190 - Shopify's New Powerful Collections
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7/22/26
Episode Summary
Shopify is rolling out a new Collection engine, and it's a big step forward for store owners. In this episode, Scott walks through what's changing: the old split between manual and smart collections is gone, replaced by collections built from a combination of sources. That means you can now mix automated rules, manual inclusions, exclusions, and pinned products in a single collection, nest collections inside other collections, and target down to the variant level so a collection shows only the red dresses, not the whole product. Scott covers real-world scenarios like self-maintaining sale collections, cleaner navigation, and variant-aware automatic discounts, plus why well-built collections turn your store from a list of products into a decision-making engine that moves shoppers down the funnel. He also shares one caution about third-party apps that haven't been updated for the new engine yet.
Show Links
- Datify - https://apps.shopify.com/datify
Video & Transcript
https://jadepuma.com/blogs/the-shopify-solutions-podcast/episode-190-shopifys-new-powerful-collections