Ultimate Collection Manager builds Shopify collections whose products update themselves. This walkthrough takes you from installing the app to your first auto-updating collection — something like "Back in stock" or "Under £50" that keeps itself current as your catalogue changes.
1. Start your store data sync
Open Integrations → Shopify and check the Sync status panel. Select Start Sync if your store has not started syncing. The first run takes a while on a large catalogue; after that, data syncs hourly.
You do not have to wait for it to finish before the rest of these steps. A Live filter reads Shopify directly, so a collection built on one works immediately. Background filters, and anything selected or sorted by sales, revenue, profit or views, need the synced copy.
If the page says your store exceeds the sync limit, choose which products to include first. See Configure Shopify integration for the selection steps.
Ultimate Collection Manager starts you on a free trial rather than a free plan, so pick a plan before the trial ends if you want to keep your collections updating. See Billing plans.
2. Start a new collection
Open View collections and select Create collection. Enter a Title — this is the collection title shoppers see in Shopify.
Before you go further, it is worth reading Understand collection sources. Ouiteo manages its own set of products in a collection and leaves anything Shopify or another app put there alone, so the two can coexist.
3. Choose the products
Under Membership, select Smart and choose a product filter — or select New filter to build one. A filter is a set of conditions such as stock is above 0 or product type is Footwear. Filters are shared across the Ouiteo apps, so one filter can drive a collection, a sale and a stock rule.
Select Preview to see which products match. Set a Product limit if you want to cap how many products Ouiteo supplies.
Choose Manual instead if you want to pick the products yourself this time. See Choose products for a collection for both methods.
4. Choose an order and a schedule
Pick a sort order for the products in the collection, or leave it on Shopify default.
Then set the schedule: Repeat updates the collection on its own at the frequency you choose, and Manual waits for you to run it. Repeat is what makes the collection auto-updating, so choose it unless you have a reason not to.
5. Create it and check the result
Check the preview one last time, then select Create. Use Apply now if you want the collection filled immediately rather than waiting for the first scheduled run.
Open the collection on your storefront to confirm the products and their order. From then on, each run re-checks the filter and updates Ouiteo's products to match.
What to do next
- Learn what each control on the form does in Create a collection.
- Change the update schedule once you know how often the collection really moves.
- Duplicate, export or bulk-update collections from View and manage collections.
- Build more capable filters with Create a filter.
If you get stuck, use the chat button in the corner or email help@ouiteo.com.