Custom Product Sorting within Collections & Categories

[dfrnoch]

In the current implementation, there isn't an option to manually arrange the products within a collection or category according to a store owner's preferences. This can make it difficult for store owners to highlight specific products or create a particular arrangement for a more visually appealing storefront.

I've recently come across a feature in Sylius that allows store owners to manually sort products within a collection using a "position" attribute. This approach could serve as inspiration for implementing a similar functionality in Medusa.

[riqwan]

Hey @lnxcz , we don't support custom ordering with collections yet, but categories do come with a "rank" column (which is our "position" attribute) that you can use to order based on your preferences - https://docs.medusajs.com/api/admin#tag/Product-Categories/operation/GetProductCategoriesCategory

[alsherif-khalaf]

I think custom ordering for products like the same way of ordering categories visually will be great feature and it is critical for store owners

[flashjames]

@lnxcz
I implemented sorting and filtering directly with algolia with their Algolia Search product.

• Yes, the Search offering has all types of ways to categorize and filter products. I was a bit misled by the name Search and there's not any docs explaining the sorting and filtering use-case.
• And the benefit is that I could just turn on their AI sorting product Algolia Recommend, that tunes sorting to each customer

If medusa had some route to add sorting with some type of rank on /store/products endpoint, I would have used that as start point.

If you @lnxcz or anybody else come's here and would like to know more details on this, send me an email at james@leky.hr for faster response since I don't watch github notifications every day.

@riqwan What you mentioned doesn't sort the products in the actual category what I can see?

[riqwan]

thanks for catching that @flashjames, I read the question incorrectly. You're right. We don't offer support for products ordering within a category or collection currently.

cc @lnxcz