# Collection sync

This guide explains how to enable **Collection Sync** so your **Destination store(s)** can receive collections from your **Source store**.

### ✅ What Collection Sync does

Note: this setting syncs the collection, not the products in the collection

* create collections that don’t exist in the Destination store
* update collections to match the Source store

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### ⚙️ Enable collection sync in app Settings

1\. Open the app in Source store > click **Settings**

2\. Turn on **Share collections**

3\. Select collections you want to sync

* **All collections**: all products of all collections in your store will be synced with Destination store
* **Specific collections**: only products of selected collection(s) will be synced with Destination store

4\. Click **Save**

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### ⚙️ Create connection in Destination store

Guide [here](/overview/connect-stores)

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### ✅ How the sync works?

Collection Sync follows the same logic as product sync:

1. The app checks collections in the Source store
2. It syncs those collections to the Destination store(s)
3. It includes products in the collection only if those products are synced/matched (based on your connection settings)

#### Matching & Imports

This setting controls how collections are synced between the Source Store and the Destination Store.

| Option          | Create New Collections   | Update Existing Collections |
| --------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------------- |
| Create & Update | ✅                        | ✅                           |
| Update Only     | ❌                        | ✅                           |
| Create Only     | ✅ (new collections only) | ❌                           |

#### Option 1: Create & Update

The app will:

* Create collections on the Destination store if they don’t already exist.
* Automatically update existing collections that share the same **handle** (URL path) as the Source.

**Example**

* Source collection: **Summer 2024**\
  Handle: `/collections/summer-2024`
* The app will:
  * Create the **Summer 2024** collection on the Destination store.
  * Keep syncing changes (e.g., title, description, products inside) from Source to Destination automatically.

Note: Any future updates you make to the "Summer 2024" collection in the Source store will also appear in the Destination store.

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#### Option 2: Update Only

The app will:

* Not create new collections.
* Only update collections in the Destination store that already share the same handle with the Source.

**Example**

* Source collection: `/collections/summer-2024`
* Destination also has `/collections/summer-2024`\
  →  Updates will sync.
* Source has `/collections/spring-2025`, but Destination does **not**\
  →  No collection will be created or synced.

#### Option 3: Create Only

The app will:

* Only create and sync new collections that are added to the Source after the store connection was established.
* Existing collections in the destination store store will not be synced.

**Example**

| Collection        | Exists in Destination Store | Sync Result |
| ----------------- | --------------------------- | ----------- |
| Summer Collection | Yes                         | Ignored     |

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