# 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\. Scroll down to **Share Collections** part > tick on checkbox **Enable**
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](https://tipo.io/index.php/kb/general-steps-to-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)
📌 Important: If a product isn’t synced to the Destination store, it may not appear in the synced collection there.
1. **Create new items if not exist and update current items that have the same identifier**
* 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.
2. **Only update current items that have the same identifier**
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.
3. **Create new items if connection is accepted**
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 Source store will not be synced.
**Example**
* Store connection created on August 5
* You add a new collection on August 6: Back to School\
→ This collection will be synced to the Destination store.
* An older collection like Spring Sale created before August 5\
→ Will not be synced.
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