Aisle

Sold-out products sink to the bottom shelf.

Aisle keeps the Shopify collections you choose in order: what can be bought stays at the top, and sold-out products move to the bottom, or out of sight until they are restocked. It works inside Shopify, on a schedule, with no theme code.

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Aisle is being prepared for Shopify’s App Store review. You get one email when it is listed, and nothing else.

Sorted 8 products. The 3 sold out are on the bottom shelf.

The sort order Shopify doesn’t have

Shopify sorts a collection by one rule at a time. Aisle adds the rule it has never offered — sold out goes last — and keeps the order you wanted above it.

  • Sold-out products sink

    What is in stock stays where shoppers look. Pre-orders and products set to keep selling stay up, because they can still be bought.

  • Best sellers stay on top

    Order the rest by best selling, newest or price. Switching a collection to Manual no longer means giving up Shopify’s best-selling order.

  • It runs on its own

    Every hour, or every 15 minutes on Pro. Run it by hand whenever you like, and see when it last sorted and what moved.

Three steps. You approve the one that matters.

  1. Choose a collection

    Pick it from your own collections, inside the Shopify admin.

  2. Allow the switch to Manual

    Shopify only lets an app reorder a Manual collection, so Aisle asks first, one collection at a time, and remembers the sort order it had.

  3. Leave it

    Aisle sorts it straight away, then checks it on schedule. Most checks find nothing to move, and say so.

What you see in your admin

These are screens from Aisle running on a test store — nothing here is a mock-up.

Every collection, one line each

  • What it doesMove sold-out products down, or hide them, and how the rest is ordered.
  • When it last ranSo “is it still working?” has an answer at a glance.
Aisle's list of collections: Winter Clearance hides sold-out products, Kitchen Appliances moves them to the bottom, Coffee Corner also sorts the rest best selling first, each checked every hour.

Four settings per collection

  • Bottom or hiddenSold-out products go to the bottom, or out of the collection.
  • The order above themLeave it as it is, or best selling, newest or by price.
  • How oftenEvery hour by default. Run now whenever you like.
A collection's settings in Aisle: keep this collection sorted, move sold-out products to the bottom, hide sold-out products instead, then order the rest by, and how often to check.

Hidden only until it’s back in stock

  • Named, not just countedAisle lists exactly which products it has taken out of the collection.
  • Back on its ownEach comes back when it is restocked. They stay published everywhere else.
  • Only its ownAisle never puts back a product you removed yourself.
Aisle's hidden products list: 64 sold-out products are out of this collection right now, each comes back by itself when it is restocked, followed by their names.

Safe to try, and honest about stopping

Aisle reorders collections and, if you ask, hides sold-out products from them. That is all it can do, by design.

  • Asks before switching each collection to Manual, and remembers the sort order it had.
  • Turning a collection off sets that sort order back and returns every product Aisle hid.
  • No code in your theme: no Liquid, no scripts, nothing that slows a page down or needs cleaning up later.
  • One permission, products. Aisle never asks Shopify for customer data and has nowhere to keep it.
  • A collection that was already Manual stays Manual — its old drag order was never Aisle’s to keep.
  • Turn Aisle off before you uninstall. Shopify removes Aisle’s access at uninstall, so after that it can no longer change anything back.

Free covers most shops

Larger catalogues and faster checks are on the paid plans.

  • 5 collections
  • Checked every hour
  • Best selling order
  • Hiding included
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Common questions

Why does my collection switch to Manual?

Shopify only lets an app reorder products in a collection whose sort order is Manual. Aisle asks before it switches, and switches back when you stop using it on that collection.

Does it work beyond the first page of a collection?

Yes. Aisle changes the order Shopify itself stores, so every page, filter and theme sees it — unlike theme code, which only sees the products on the page being shown.

What about pre-orders and “continue selling”?

A product counts as sold out only when no variant can be bought. Products set to keep selling when out of stock stay where they are.

Why does my theme’s sort menu show a different order?

The menu lets shoppers re-sort a collection themselves. Aisle sets the default order, which is what shoppers see before they choose anything.

What happens if I uninstall?

Turn Aisle off first: it puts sort orders back and returns hidden products. If you uninstall without doing that, your collections stay on Manual and hidden products stay hidden, because Shopify has already removed Aisle’s access.