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Depict: Search & Merchandising is Depict’s native Shopify app. It works directly on the collections you already have: you sort, pin, boost and bury products, preview the result, and Depict writes the final order back into your Shopify collections so it applies everywhere your theme shows them.

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What Depict: Search & Merchandising gives you

Collection merchandising

Automatic sort orders (best selling, trending, price, stock, clicks and more) with pinned products on top, saved as versions you can publish and schedule.

Boost & Bury

Global and per-collection rules that push products up or down — by computed badge, by Shopify tag, or by collection membership.

Recommendations

Product recommendation carousels for product, cart, home and collection pages, rendered by a theme section and configured per surface.

Analytics

The revenue, clicks and orders Depict drives, by collections, search, recommendations and products, plus per-product analytics and weekly reports.

A/B testing

Pit two saved versions of a collection against each other, or test your visual merchandising against none, with a verdict per collection.

Multi-store

Connect several Shopify stores and replicate collection merchandising between them.

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How it works

  1. Install the app from the Shopify App Store. Depict ingests your catalog and 30 days of purchase history, and sets up its collection template in your theme — see Onboarding.
  2. Activate collections you want Depict to manage. How many you can activate depends on your plan.
  3. Merchandise: choose a sort order, pin key products, add boost/bury rules and content cards.
  4. Publish: the computed order is synced back into the Shopify collection itself, so it works with any theme and every sales channel.

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Depict: Search & Merchandising, or the full platform?

Depict: Search & Merchandising is built for Shopify merchants who want powerful collection merchandising without changing their storefront. The full Depict platform adds search, listings, recommendations and deeper analytics, integrated into your storefront via API. If you’re unsure which fits, talk to us.

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Building a headless storefront or native app?

Everything Depict: Search & Merchandising produces — the product order, content cards, image settings and product duplicates — is readable through Shopify’s own APIs; there is no Depict API in the storefront read path. For your developers: the integration guide documents the data model and the queries, and the grid rendering spec specifies the grid layout algorithm for implementations that must match the web storefront exactly.