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Why Tagalys
Collection pages that load complete, even on your busiest day
Group pieces into Looks, arrange products into aisles that tell a story, and plan the order for your next drop.
Server Side Integration
Your collection order lives on Shopify
- Tagalys sends positions to Shopify ahead of time, so the page loads complete, even during BFCM
- Show new arrivals in their collection positions within minutes of publishing
- Run BFCM without collection pages slowing under traffic
- Use API when you want a different merchandising order for different Shopify Markets
Looks
Merchandise matching sets as one unit
Group a dress, shoes and bag into a Look, so shoppers see the outfit together
- Pin a Look to any position on your Shopify collection page
- Let a Look move automatically as performance shifts
- Reuse a Look across collections
Visual Sequences
Give one collection more than one sort order
Arrange products into aisles that tell a story
- Create aisles around color, type, fabric or theme
- Give each aisle its own logic: trending, new arrivals or units sold
- Let Smart Sequence move your best-performing aisles up each day
Trending Score
Help new arrivals find their place alongside bestsellers
Rank every product by real engagement, tag performance and freshness, across collections, search and recommendations
- Help new products surface based on how similar products perform
- Keep rankings responsive to shopper interest, without daily manual sorting
- Boost product scores when campaign priorities change
Smart Collections
Go beyond Shopify's standard collection conditions
- Create collections combining product tags and real performance like units sold, views or revenue
- Combine color, type and fabric groups with nested AND / OR condition
- Let a product move in or out as its performance changes
- Pin a product into the collection and let the conditions unpin it later
Pre-Launch Merchandising
Pre-merchandise every drop before launch day
- Set the order for your next drop while your products are still in draft
- Hold your hero positions for products that aren't live yet
- Pin and demote draft and unpublished products before they join the collection
- Schedule the collection to go live alongside your Shopify launch
Last updated on 25 September 2026
The Difference
Why brands choose Tagalys
Native to Shopify
Collection order is written into Shopify, so collection pages load complete with no extra script
Fashion first
Build Shopify collections around the way you merchandise fashion and lifestyle products
Real support
Get personalized onboarding and a team that answers your merchandising questions
Go live in 48 hrs
28-day free trial
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FAQS
Commonly asked questions
Algolia is built as a general-purpose search API, so merchandising your Shopify collections, pinning products, adjusting rankings, planning around a launch, means building that through the API yourself. Tagalys writes directly into Shopify, so you merchandise it yourself, with your collections loading fast and staying accurate, especially on your busiest days.
Most brands start by installing the Tagalys Shopify app, which writes collection positions straight into Shopify. Search and Recommendations connect through the Tagalys API, using our SDK or a default widget. We test the setup with you before anything goes live, and most collections are up and running within 48 hours.
Tagalys is built and optimized for catalogs of up to 25,000 products (or roughly 100,000 variants), where we can guarantee fast, reliable sync. If your catalog is larger, we're happy to discuss a plan to support it.
Collection changes reach your Shopify store within a few minutes of saving. Search, recommendations, and merchandising synced across Shopify Markets update in under 10 minutes.
Your 28-day free trial gives you full access to every feature, plus personalized onboarding, so you're never figuring it out alone. No credit card needed. Once it ends, you choose the plan that fits, with no lock-in.
Tagalys targets 99.9% monthly uptime. With server-side merchandising, Shopify serves your collections in the order Tagalys last saved.