Sort Shopify collections by trending products

The problem

Shopify's built-in best-seller sort can favor older products with long sales histories. For many stores, the better question is what is performing well now: what shoppers are viewing, adding to cart, buying, or what the merchant wants to feature today.

Trending Sort by Power Tools creates collection sort orders based on recent product performance. It can use tracking signals such as views, add-to-carts, revenue, inventory, and featured-product weighting.

When Power Tools is a good fit

Use Trending Sort when collection pages should react to current demand instead of only lifetime sales. It is useful for stores with seasonal products, new arrivals, large catalogs, repeat traffic, and products that become popular quickly.

Compared with Shopify collection sorting

Shopify collection sorting covers common choices such as manual sort and best-selling products. Trending Sort is useful when the order should react to what is happening now, including recent views, add-to-carts, revenue, inventory, and featured-product weighting.

Useful workflows

• Show products with strong recent engagement first.
• Keep new high-performing products from being buried behind older best sellers.
• Blend product tracking with featured-product boosts.
• Use Sort Orders and Sort Selector when merchants or shoppers also need alternate sort choices.

Read the Trending Products Help Center for tracking and theme setup details.

Install

Trending Sort is available through Power Tools on the Shopify App Store: install Trending Sort.

Questions merchants ask

How is Trending Sort different from Shopify best sellers?

Trending Sort can use recent product activity, so newer or currently popular products do not have to compete only against older lifetime best sellers.

Can Power Tools put featured products at the top?

Yes. The tracking snippets and app embed support featured-product weighting so selected products can be boosted in trending sort orders.