> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.depict.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Collections > Activating collections, sort orders and pinning, versions and publishing, content cards, image settings, product duplicates, and collection analytics. Collections are where Depict: Search & Merchandising does its work: you activate a collection, choose how it sorts, pin and enrich it, and publish — Depict then writes the resulting product order back into the Shopify collection itself. ## Limits and behavior * Depict is turned on per collection. Deactivating a collection restores its original template. * How many collections can be active at once depends on the plan; the free tier allows 3 after the 7-day trial. * Publishing writes the computed order into the Shopify collection as a manual sort order — it applies in your theme and every sales channel, and can take a short moment to be fully visible. * Scheduled publishes are executed by a job that runs every 30 minutes: a version goes live within about 30 minutes of its scheduled time. * Content cards and product duplicates are shown only in the collection's default order; they are hidden when a shopper sorts or filters ([why](/shopify-lite/troubleshooting#content-cards-disappear-when-shoppers-sort-or-filter)). Image settings apply in every view. * Sell-through is computed for the all-markets view only; market-scoped views don't show it. * The grid renders with the store's configured column counts (defaults: 4 on desktop, 2 on mobile). ## Activating collections The **Collections** page lists every collection with filter tabs (**All / Live / Not live / Draft / Scheduled**), search, and sorting by performance or name. Activate the collection you want Depict to manage. It receives the Depict template and opens in the merchandising editor. **Result:** the collection shows a **live** badge on the Collections page once published, and appears under the **Live** filter tab. Bulk actions (**Publish selected**, **Unpublish selected**, **Apply automated sorting**) act on multiple selected collections at once and are available on paid plans. The Collections page with metric tiles for attributed revenue, click-through, add to cart and orders, filter tabs All, Live, Not live, Draft and Scheduled, a search field, a period picker, and the collections as cards with live and draft badges, views, click-through and clicks ## Sorting Each active collection has a sort order: | Sort order | Notes | | - | - | | Best selling | Units sold in the last 30 days, or revenue in the last 30 days | | Trending | Units sold in the last 7 days, or revenue in the last 7 days | | Newest / oldest | By the **New in** date: publish date, or creation date if never published ([Settings](/shopify-lite/settings)) | | Price | Ascending or descending | | Alphabetical | A–Z or Z–A | | Stock | Highest total stock first | | Clicks | Most clicked in the last 30 days | | Manual | The order you arrange in the editor; nothing is re-sorted automatically, and Boost & Bury rules don't apply | A collection can also show **Most relevant**. That comes from Shopify's own relevance sort, which Depict can't compute, so it isn't offered as a sort order. Depict keeps the collection's existing order, and pins and Boost & Bury rules still apply on top. Once Depict has written the order to Shopify, the existing order is the one Depict last wrote, so it no longer follows Shopify's relevance. Pick one of the sort orders above to have Depict keep the collection sorted. On top of the sort order: * **Pinning** fixes products to positions (**Pin to top** and **Pin to position** in the editor); everything unpinned follows the sort order. * **Unpin out-of-stock** releases a pin automatically when the product goes out of stock. * Storefront settings per collection include hiding out-of-stock products. * [Boost & Bury rules](/shopify-lite/boost-and-bury) come before the sort order: products matching a higher rule are placed above products matching a lower one, and the sort order decides among products under the same rule. Depict recalculates the order of every active collection about every 6 hours, after refreshing sales and clicks, and also when products (including their stock) or collections change in Shopify and when you publish. The collection editor for a live collection named Dresses, showing a product grid with position numbers, pin icons on the first two products, per-product click and revenue metrics, a Publish button, and the Get Started drawer listing five setup steps ## Versions, publishing and scheduling Merchandising is saved as **versions** of the collection: * A version is a draft until published — it changes nothing on the storefront. * Publishing a version as the **main version** makes it the live configuration for every market that has no market version. * A **market version** targets a Shopify market or a market group, and takes precedence over the main version for those markets. * A version can be **scheduled** for a future time, and unscheduled before it fires. Scheduled publishes go live within about 30 minutes of the scheduled time. **Result of a publish:** the Shopify collection's sort order changes to manual, holding Depict's computed order — visible in Shopify admin under the collection's sorting. ## Content cards Content cards are tiles placed in the collection grid alongside products: * **Types**: image, video, text, and spacer cards. Video cards play muted and looping. Text can be overlaid on image and video cards. * **Size**: a card spans one or more grid slots (columns × rows). Cards larger than one slot affect the grid's slot math — see [empty spaces in the grid](/shopify-lite/troubleshooting#empty-spaces-in-the-grid-when-using-content-cards). * **Visibility**: a card can be limited to desktop or mobile with its visibility setting. * **Links**: a card can link to a product, a collection, a page, a blog article, or an external URL. * **Instagram**: media can be imported from a connected Instagram account; imported cards carry an attribution to the creator. * **Analytics**: card clicks are tracked per card. * **Translation**: a card's text is translated through Shopify's native translations; other fields, including alt text, are identical across locales. * Cards appear in the collection's default order only; a shopper who sorts or filters sees the grid without cards. ## Image settings An image setting replaces a product's primary image (and optionally its hover image) within one collection, without affecting the product anywhere else. Image settings apply in every view, including when shoppers sort or filter. They are not applied to product duplicates. ## Product duplicates A product duplicate is a second card for a product already in the collection, with its own imagery — the title, price and link stay the product's own. Duplicates are placed like products in the grid, and like content cards they are hidden when a shopper sorts or filters. ## Collection analytics * The Collections page sorts by performance over a chosen date range (views, CTR, clicks), with headline numbers per collection. * Per collection, the app shows product clicks with each product's average position, product orders, and revenue — filterable by market or market group. Sell-through appears in the all-markets view. * Any collection can be previewed as a rendered storefront screenshot; this works on password-protected storefronts once the storefront password is entered in the app. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.