Merchandising Rules Overview Merchandising rules control which products appear first in your collections and search results. The goal is to surface products that are likely to convert — in-stock, popular, high-margin — while giving merchandisers manual control to pin hero products, hide out-of-stock items, and boost seasonal collections. Every major platform has some built-in sorting options; apps like Searchpie, Intelligems, or SearchPie add automated performance-based ranking. When to Use This Skill - When building product ranking logic for collection and category pages - When creating auto…