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Shopify: Let AI Pick the Best Collection and Push the Product Category

Spark Shipping can file the products it creates in Shopify for you, in two separate ways:

  • Collections are the groups your shoppers browse in your store. Let AI pick the best collection adds each new product to the best-matching collection you already have.
  • Product category is Shopify's own Standard Product Taxonomy (for example "Vehicle Parts & Accessories"). Push product category to Shopify sets this category on new products.

You can use either option, or both.

Let AI pick the best collection

Turn it on for all new products

  1. Go to Sites, click your Shopify site, then click Default Product Options.
  2. In Default Product Collections, select Let AI pick the best collection (it is the first entry in the list).
  3. Click Update Default Product Options.

Use it for one push from the catalog

When you add products from a vendor's Product Catalog, the Push to Manual Collection dropdown also offers Let AI pick the best collection.

How the match is made

  • Spark Shipping compares the product's vendor category with the names of your manual collections and picks the closest one.
  • The product is only added when the match is a confident one. If no collection is close enough, the product is created without a collection.
  • Products whose vendor does not provide a category are created without a collection.
  • Automated (smart) collections are never used. Shopify fills those itself from your collection rules.
  • Collections are only set when a product is first created in Shopify. Products that are already in your store are not moved.
  • If you also select Use Vendor Category, the vendor category is used and the AI choice is skipped.

Keep your collection list up to date

Spark Shipping can only choose collections it knows about. If you add a new manual collection in Shopify, click Refresh manual collections next to the Push to Manual Collection dropdown, or run Test Connection on the site's Credentials page.

Push product category to Shopify (Standard Product Taxonomy)

  1. Go to Sites, click your Shopify site, then click Default Product Options.
  2. Check Push product category to Shopify (Standard Product Taxonomy).
  3. Click Update Default Product Options.

When a product is pushed, Spark Shipping searches Shopify's standard product taxonomy using the product's category name and sets Shopify's top search result as the product category. A short or vague category name can give a loose match, so check the category on a few pushed products. If the product has no category, or Shopify finds no match, the product is created without a Shopify category.

Tip: A Shopify product category helps Shopify fill in product attributes and can improve how your products appear on sales channels. It does not change which collection the product is in.