Hey everyone! Diana here from the Merchandising product team. We’re shipping the biggest change to the Collections API in years, and we’re putting it in developers’ hands first. The new model is available now in the 2026-07 release candidate, ahead of the redesigned merchant admin experience that r…

collection on variant level with access to functions is great news.

@diana_cheptene this is hugely impacting our app. Can we have a contact from Shopify to talk in private?

@Liam-Shopify in case Diana is not checking the forum?

Does it go GA with 2026-07.. in two weeks? It’s a very short deadline for something that big. Also how will the mutation collectionReorderProducts - GraphQL Admin work with the new collection source system? The doc says: The Collection.sortOrder must be MANUAL. And there is no deprecation for…

Hi @Soufiane_Ghzal Will connect with our internal team on the question related to collectionReorderProducts mutation - are there any other specific questions you have on this?

Hi @Liam-Shopify thank you, I opened a thread here few minutes ago with more questions: [image] New collection system - need answers GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting Hi, Yesterday was announced a major update with how collections will work from July . Today i…

We consume collections by looking up the collection and extracting a list of product ids, looking at the documentation the way we consume this information doesn’t seem to have changed, however i note that in future we will be able to get a list of variant ids should we wish?

@diana_cheptene @Liam-Shopify we really need answers here. Do you realize it will literally break many collections related apps and we have now less than two weeks to migrate and many unanswered questions? [image] diana_cheptene: Drop your questions and feedback in this thread — we’re checking…

Hi @Soufiane_Ghzal RE: the collectionReorderProducts mutation: nothing changes for sort order in this release. Currently looking into the questions on your other topic.

Hi @Liam-Shopify does it mean that this will be an API release with 100% feature parity and no changes from the merchant’s perspective ? The original post saying existing collections and newly created collection will be migrated on July to the new system, It will keep working as usual and we can k…

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Hi @Liam-Shopify thank you, I opened a thread here few minutes ago with more questions:

Topic		Replies	Views
New collection system - need answers for app migration GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting general-gql-troubles	2	134	June 19, 2026
Missing webhook/event for products entering or leaving smart collections GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting general-gql-troubles	4	182	July 8, 2026
Collection returns null via collection(id:), node(id:), and handle search, but its products are queryable GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting general-gql-troubles	17	231	July 24, 2026
[Storefront] Unable to query Products & Collections Hydrogen and Storefront APIs storefront-api	9	460	April 24, 2025
Inconsistent results from Admin GraphQL productVariants query with collection filter Products and Orders APIs admin-api-variants	5	100	January 12, 2026

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