Magic Sorter for BigCommerce

Install Magic Sorter from the App Store 

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What Is Magic Sorter?

Magic Sorter gives you complete control over the order products appear in your BigCommerce categories.

You can arrange products manually by dragging them into place or choose an automatic property-based rule such as Best Selling, Newest Products, Price, Inventory, or Name.

After your sorting rules are configured, Magic Sorter can reapply them automatically on a daily schedule. This keeps category layouts organized as products, sales, and inventory change.

Features Available on Every Plan

• Drag-and-drop custom sorting – Arrange products in any order you choose.
• Property sorting – Automatically sort by sales, date, price, inventory, name, and other product properties.
• Daily automatic sorting – Re-sort categories at a scheduled time.
• Automatic backups – Capture a backup before each sort so the previous order can be restored.
• Large-catalog pagination – Keep the editor responsive when working with categories containing thousands of products.

Premium Features

• Automatically move out-of-stock products to the bottom of categories across the store.
• Restore out-of-stock products to their previous positions when inventory returns.
• Save up to 50 Snapshots instead of three.
• Create up to 20 Scheduled Sorts instead of one.
• Keep automatic backups for 30 days instead of seven.

Getting Started

Connect Your Store

Create Your First Sort

Sorting Reference

The Sort Products List

The Sort Products page displays every category in a searchable table.

Column	What It Shows
Category	The category image, name, breadcrumb path, BigCommerce ID, and product count.
Sort Type	Custom Product Sort, a selected property rule, or Not Set Up.
Auto-sort	On or Daily for automatic sorting, Off for manual-only sorting, or a dash when no sort is configured.
Snapshots	The number of Saved Snapshots used compared with the plan limit.
Updated	When the category’s sort configuration was last changed.
Last Backup	When the most recent automatic backup was captured.

Filters

Use the filters to narrow the category list by:

• Configured or unconfigured sorts
• Custom or property sorts
• Auto-sort status
• Categories with or without Snapshots
• Categories with or without a backup

Bulk Actions

• Run Sort Now – Reapply the configured sort immediately.
• Auto-sort: On / Off – Enable or disable automatic daily sorting.
• Change Sort Type – Change selected categories to a Custom or Property Sort.
• Create Snapshot – Save the current order under a name.

Row Actions

• Edit Sort – Open the Sort Editor.
• Restore Last Backup – Restore the category order from the most recent backup.
• Delete Saved Sort – Remove the Magic Sorter configuration and return the category to the BigCommerce default sort.

Sort Editor: Sort & Products Tab

Sort Types

• Custom Product Sort – Arrange products manually by dragging them.
• Property Sort – Automatically order products using a selected rule.

Property Sort Options

• Your Featured Items Sort
• Best Selling, based on the most revenue
• Lowest Selling, based on the least revenue
• Newest Products
• Oldest Products
• Name, A to Z
• Name, Z to A
• Price, Lowest to Highest
• Price, Highest to Lowest
• Inventory, Lowest to Highest
• Inventory, Highest to Lowest

Custom Sort Options

Option	What It Controls
New Products	Places newly added products before the custom order or at the end. Before the custom order is the default.
Sync New Products	Automatically adds newly created store products to the sort when enabled.
Move Out-of-Stock to Bottom	Moves out-of-stock products below in-stock products. This is a Premium feature.
Restore to Original Position	Returns the category to its original BigCommerce order if the sort is disabled later.
Auto-sort	Includes the category in the daily automatic sorting schedule.

The Product Grid

• Choose a column layout that makes the products easier to scan.
• Use Hide Out-of-Stock and Hide Not Visible to remove products temporarily from the editor view.
• Each product appears as a draggable card with its image, name, SKU, price, and inventory.
• Drag one product at a time or select several and move them together.
• Large categories can be split into pages while still supporting drag-and-drop across pages.

Select Save & apply sort when the layout is complete. After the first save, a Run sort now button also appears.

Automatic Sorting

Magic Sorter can reapply configured category sorts automatically every day.

1. Open Settings.
2. Turn on automatic sorting.
3. Choose the daily sort time.
4. Choose the store timezone.
5. Enable Auto-sort for the categories that should be included.

At the scheduled time, Magic Sorter:

• Captures a backup of the current category order.
• Runs the configured sort for each eligible category.
• Updates the storefront category order within a few minutes.

Recent automatic and manual runs appear in the Dashboard’s Recent Activity area. Use Restore Last Backup if a sort does not produce the expected result.

Backups and Snapshots

Open a category’s Sort Editor and select the Snapshots & Schedules tab.

Automatic Backups

Magic Sorter captures a backup before every sort run. Restore a backup when you need to return to the previous category order.

• Free and Base plans retain backups for seven days.
• Premium retains backups for 30 days.

Saved Snapshots

A Saved Snapshot is a named product order that can be reapplied later.

Snapshots are useful for recurring layouts such as:

• Summer Sale
• Back to School
• Black Friday
• Christmas
• End-of-Season Clearance

Base plans can store three Snapshots per store. Premium plans can store 50.

Scheduled Sorts

A Scheduled Sort automatically applies a Saved Snapshot on a specified date and time.

• Create a one-time schedule for a specific event.
• Create a recurring seasonal schedule that runs every year.
• Select the time and timezone.
• Disable a schedule without deleting it.

Settings Reference

Automatic Sorting

Controls the store-wide default for daily sorting.

When changing this setting, you can choose to:

• Apply the setting to all existing categories immediately.
• Set the default only for categories configured in the future.

Sort Schedule

• Daily Sort Time – The hour when automatic sorts begin.
• Timezone – The timezone used for the daily schedule.
• Save Schedule – Saves the selected time and timezone.

Product Pagination

Pagination improves performance when editing categories containing large numbers of products.

Setting	What It Controls
Paginate Large Categories	Splits large categories into pages in the Sort Editor.
Pagination Threshold	The product count at which pagination begins. The default is 2,000 products.
Products Per Page	The number of products shown on each Sort Editor page. The default is 200.

Store-Wide Out-of-Stock Sorting

This Premium setting keeps out-of-stock products at the bottom of every category automatically.

• All categories are enrolled when the setting is enabled.
• Products are moved to the bottom when they go out of stock.
• Products are restored to their original positions when inventory returns.
• Disabling the setting restores each category’s original order.

Plans and Limits

Feature	Free	Base	Premium
Drag-and-Drop Custom Sorting	Yes	Yes	Yes
Property Sorts	Yes	Yes	Yes
Daily Automatic Sorting	Yes	Yes	Yes
Saved Snapshots	None	3	50
Scheduled Sorts	None	1	20
Store-Wide Out-of-Stock Sorting	No	No	Yes
Automatic Backup Retention	7 days	7 days	30 days
Backups Per Category	10	10	30

Troubleshooting and FAQ