Collections
On this page
Collections group your products so shoppers can browse them, such as New In, Men or Sale. In Kartlo, your storefront menu is built from collections: a top-level collection is a tab in the menu bar, and collections placed inside it become its dropdown.
Create a collection#
The quickest way:
- Open Menu from your desk.
- Type a name in the box at the top, for example Shoes.
- Press Enter or click Create collection.
- In the confirmation, click Add products to fill it straight away.
This creates a manual, top-level collection that shows in your menu. For more control, such as nesting, rules or a menu link, click Add menu item instead.
Start from a ready-made menu#
If you have no collections yet, click Start from a ready-made menu and pick a starting point for your kind of shop, such as Fashion & apparel, General retail or Food & drink. Kartlo creates the whole menu, and you rename or remove anything you like. Or click Add the first tab myself.
Collection settings#
Click Add menu item, or choose Edit from a collection's ⋯ menu, to open the full form:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Collection Name | The wording shoppers read in your menu. |
| Where it sits in the menu | Top level (a tab in the menu bar), or inside another collection as a dropdown item or sub-item. The menu goes three levels deep. |
| What it does | Collection of products, Heading only (groups dropdown items, not clickable), Opens a page or Opens a link. |
| Collection type | Manual or Automated. See below. |
| Show in storefront menu | Turn off to keep a collection out of the menu, for a campaign page you link to yourself or a group used only for reporting. |
| Collection image | Shown in the menu and on collection tiles. Leave empty to use a product photo. |
| Sub-collections on this page | How sub-collections are shown above the products on the collection page. |
| Description | Optional text shown on the collection page. |
| Menu position | Lower numbers appear first, left to right. |
Add products to a manual collection#
You can assign products from either side.
From the collection:
- In Menu, open the collection's ⋯ menu and choose Manage products.
- Search for products by name, SKU or vendor and click Add. Click Remove to take one out.
- Click Done. Changes save as you add or remove.
From the product: open the product and pick collections in the Collections field. A product can be in several collections.
Automated collections#
An automated collection fills itself. You set conditions, and every product that matches joins on its own, now and whenever products are created, edited or imported. Date-based rules are also refreshed every night.
- Open the collection form and set What it does to Collection of products.
- Set Collection type to Automated.
- Choose whether Products must match all or any of the conditions.
- Click Add condition and pick a field, an operator and a Value.
- Save the collection.
| Field | Operators |
|---|---|
| Title, Product type, Vendor, Tag, Category | is equal to, is not equal to, contains, starts with |
| Price, Compare-at price, Weight (grams), Stock, Discount % | is equal to, is not equal to, is greater than, is less than |
| Added | in the last (days), more than (days) ago |
Text matches ignore upper and lower case. Some useful recipes:
- On sale: Discount % is greater than 0. A product is discounted when its compare-at price is higher than its price.
- Big deals: Discount % is greater than 30.
- New arrivals: Added in the last 30 days.
Organise your menu#
The Menu page shows What shoppers see, a preview of your menu bar, above the list. Switch between List and Map to see the menu as a list or as a tree.
From a collection's ⋯ menu you can:
- Add item inside this to create a dropdown item under it.
- Move to… to place it under a different collection or at the top level.
- Delete to remove it. Move or remove the dropdown items under a collection before deleting it.
Collections hidden from the menu are marked Hidden.