Show the right products at the right time with smart merchandising

Display the right products at the right time with smart merchandising

As key moments like Christmas, Mother’s Day or Black Friday, each collection needs to be strategically reorganized.

To maximize sales, it’s essential to highlight the products that truly perform at exactly the right time.

Shopify gives you access to best-seller data… But how do you turn that into effective merchandising?

Different strategies for different periods

Each time of year calls for a specific strategy to make the most of your sales data:

• Seasonal peaks (Christmas, Mother’s Day, Black Friday…)

Look at your bestsellers from the same period last year to spotlight products that have already proven their worth.

• Sale periods

Use recent sales data (last 7, 15, or 30 days) to identify high-demand items and move inventory faster.

• Slower seasons

Rely on sales from the last 2–3 months to showcase consistent long-term performers.

The bestsellers sort on Shopify

Shopify does offer an automatic best-sellers sort option, but it’s based on your store’s global sales history, without any filter by date range.

The result? You end up displaying products that perform well long-term, but not necessarily those that are relevant right now.

The data exists but is hard to use

Shopify makes best-seller data available through its reports.

You can filter by time period to identify top-performing items, but you can’t apply that insight directly within your collections.

Smarter merchandising with Visual Merchandiser

Visual Merchandiser allows you to sort collections by best sellers over a custom time range.

This changes everything when managing your collections:

• Highlight products that are actually performing right now

• Save time by skipping manual sorting

• Keep collections up-to-date with daily automatic sorting (perfect during sale periods when best-sellers shift fast)

Way more than just sorting

Beyond time-based sorting, Visual Merchandiser is a powerful dashboard for precise, effective collection management.

Key features:

• Automatic sorting several times a day by one or more criteria (stock, best sellers, price…)

• WYSIWYG preview

• Product position locking

• Precise product insertion at any position

• Drag-and-drop for fully visual merchandising

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Visual Merchandiser becomes your ally to combine strategy and performance with minimal effort.
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