Merchandising settings
Product badges and the collection grid moved
Product badges and the collection grid now live on a Settings tab on the Collections page, instead of the Merchandising tab of the Settings page. Your saved values are unchanged. Market groups moved to the Store tab of the Settings page. See Product badges.Search, recommendations and onboarding
Personalized recommendations
Recommendation surfaces can now use what each shopper viewed and has in their cart. Add a Recently viewed step, or base Similar products, Bought together, Viewed together and Pairs well with on the shopper’s recently viewed products or cart, so they also work on cart and home pages. Personalized surfaces are built for each shopper as the page loads, and the editor’s preview has a simulated shopper to try them with. See Personalized surfaces.Recommendations on pages and blog posts
The Depict Recommendations section can now be added to page, blog and blog post templates, for example a “Shop the look” carousel built from a Best sellers step filtered to one collection. See Pages and blog posts.Choose which metafields search reads
In Search → Results & ranking you can now pick product metafields for search to read, so shoppers find products by the details you keep in them. Saving your choice re-indexes your catalog.Content pages in search
Search can now return your store pages, policies and blog posts next to products. Pick the pages to index, switch on automatic indexing per type, or add custom URLs.Out-of-stock products and New arrivals in recommendations
Each recommendation surface has an Include out-of-stock products toggle, for stores that want sold-out products to stay visible. New arrivals steps gained a Published within (days) window, set to 30 days for new steps.Define “New in” by published or created date
The New in badge in Settings → Merchandising → Product badges has a Define by choice: published date or created date. The same date orders collections sorted by Newest in or Oldest in.A new install screen
While Depict reads your catalog after install, the app now shows what it does for merchandising, recommendations and search, with previews built from your own products.Analytics, recommendations and multi-store
One Analytics page
Analytics now brings collections, search, recommendations and products together under one period picker and one export. Search reports and the weekly report moved in as tabs. Help is back in the navigation, with video guides, documentation and chat.Filter recommendations by tag
Recommendation steps can be filtered by Shopify tag: keep or drop products with the tags you list, or match tags with the product being viewed.Hide products from a surface
A recommendation surface can now hide products. Hiding wins over pinning, so a hidden product never appears on that surface.Recommendations across linked stores
Turn on Replicate recommendations in your multi-store group to copy recommendation surfaces from the source store to the other stores, with collection filters and hidden products translated for each store.Card spacing and image choice in the recommendations section
The Depict Recommendations theme section has new settings: Space between cards, and Card image and Hover image to choose which product image the cards show.Search boost & bury of its own
Search can now use its own boost & bury rules, separate from your collections, or go back to the collection rules at any time.A new name
The app is now called Depict: Search & Merchandising in your Shopify admin.Install and recommendations
Fewer permissions at install
Installing the app now asks for fewer Shopify permissions. Access to discounts, price rules, navigation, product feeds, reports and shipping is no longer requested.Catalog sync is fully automatic
Your catalog syncs from Shopify automatically, so Settings no longer offers a manual sync.Pinned products on recommendation surfaces
Pin products to fixed slots on a recommendation surface, on every page it serves or per product.Products page
The Products page shows how a single product performs: revenue, a shopper funnel, daily trends and its performance in each collection.Documentation
New documentation home
Depict: Search & Merchandising now has its own documentation section, covering onboarding, collection merchandising, boost & bury, A/B testing and multi-store — plus a full API reference. Release notes for Depict: Search & Merchandising will appear here going forward.In-app product news continues to appear in the Depict: Search & Merchandising
dashboard’s changelog feed.