Group by tag

If your products already carry a tag that names their family — style-1234, Series_Color Shine — the app can create one group per tag, in bulk. When one tag isn’t enough to tell families apart, combine it with a second tag.

Start it from Groups → Create group → Group by tag (in the Group by a rule row), then click Continue.

Step 1 — Tell the app which tag identifies a group

Combine tags so each different combination becomes its own group.

Setting	What it does
Group identifier	The text the family tag starts with, e.g. style-. Every different matching tag becomes its own group, so style-1234 and style-1290 are two groups. Case is ignored, but style-1234 and style_1234 are different tags.
Combine with another tag	Adds a second tag the products must also have. Every different combination becomes its own group — see the example below.
Option value from	Product title — the part of the title that differs (e.g. 300ml). Another tag — the rest of a second tag after its prefix: with Option value tag color-, a product tagged color-navy-blue gets the value Navy Blue.
Separator	Shown when the value comes from the title: how titles are split into base name and value. Auto-detect tries common separators, then falls back to word-based matching.
Option name	The option created for every group (e.g. Size). You can rename it per group during review.
Minimum group size	Tags with fewer products are skipped.
Product filters	Optionally limit the scan by product status, collection, or vendor.

Under the identifier, Suggested from your tags lists prefixes the app found in your catalog, with how many groups each would create. Click Use to fill one in.

Example: one series, several hair types

Your products share a series tag, but each series has Fine and Coarse versions that must stay apart:

Product	Tags
Color Shine Shampoo – Fine Hair 300ml	Series_Color Shine, Hair type_Fine
Color Shine Shampoo – Fine Hair 1000ml	Series_Color Shine, Hair type_Fine
Color Shine Shampoo – Coarse Hair 300ml	Series_Color Shine, Hair type_Coarse
Color Shine Shampoo – Coarse Hair 1000ml	Series_Color Shine, Hair type_Coarse

With only Series_ as the identifier, all four land in one group — and two products would share the value 300ml. Set Group identifier to Series_, click Combine with another tag, and enter Hair type_. You get two groups, each with Size: 300ml · 1000ml:

• Color Shine + Fine
• Color Shine + Coarse

Add a third tag (for example Product type_ — Shampoo vs Conditioner) if shampoos and conditioners of the same series must also stay apart.

A tag both products share (such as Hair type_Colored on every Color Shine product) doesn’t split anything — only tags whose values differ between families do.

Let AI suggest the setup

Not sure which tags to combine? Click Suggest with AI. AI reads a summary of your tags and proposes up to three setups — which prefixes to combine and where the option value comes from — each with the number of groups and products it would create. The Best match is listed first. Click Apply to fill in the form, then continue as usual.

AI only proposes the setup; the grouping itself is done by the rules above, across your whole catalog. If AI finds no tags that identify your products, try Group by title pattern or Group with AI.

Click Analyze products. Nothing is created yet.

Step 2 — Review the groups

Fine and Coarse versions of the same series come out as separate groups, each with its own Size picker.

The review works like the other bulk flows:

• Select or deselect groups, rename the option, and exclude wrongly matched products.
• Pick the Appearance for the product page and product card, with a Storefront preview.
• Choose Create groups as Active or Draft.
• A banner explains why products were left out — for example tags with too few products, products missing one of the combined tags, or two products with the same option value.

If a tag almost matches a group’s tag (a different separator or an extra space), the group offers to Also add those products. Nothing is merged unless you tick it.

Step 3 — Create

Click Create N groups. A summary lists the groups created, with shortcuts to Customize appearance and View product groups.

Run it again when you add products

Scan again later with the same setup and the review recognises groups it created before: +N new products are added to them and unchanged groups are marked No change. Products are never removed automatically — if a product no longer carries the tag, the review tells you and leaves it for you to remove.

Related

• Group with AI — when tags and titles are inconsistent.
• Group by title pattern
• Create a multiple-options group

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