You dragged the order. The grid ignored you.

Several “collection order” bugs look alike. They do not share a fix. This page is only when Admin Sort is Manually (or Featured) and the live product grid does not match your drag-and-drop positions — positions reset after CSV/bulk, Save does not stick, or the storefront reorders Featured on its own. Automatic Sort by price / best selling / newest dropdown stuck, missing, or ignoring sort_by URL params is shopify-collection-sort-not-working.

Soft-check shopify-search-and-discovery-filters-broken when collection / storefront filters are empty or broken (not when Manual order alone is wrong), and shopify-collection-rules-not-matching when products fail smart-collection membership (order can still be fine for the products that are in). Soft-check shopify-collection-pagination-seo when the leftover gap is page/2 SEO, not Manual Featured order.

Open Admin → Products → Collections → [collection]. Soft-check Sort is set to Manually (Shopify labels this Featured on some storefronts). Soft-check drag order of the first 8–12 products. Soft-check the live collection URL with no ?sort_by= (or with Featured) on a real phone. Soft-check Search & Discovery for boosts / pinning that override Featured. Soft-check Theme settings → App embeds for merchandising / sort / visual merchandiser apps. Soft-check theme Liquid on the collection template for collection.products | sort or hard-coded product lists. Soft-check overnight CSV / Matrixify / Admin API jobs that rewrite positions.

Capture: Admin Manual order screenshot, live grid order, whether a sort_by param is forced by the theme, which apps are on Current, and last CSV / bulk run.

Re-select Manually on the collection, re-drag 3–5 hero SKUs, Save. Turn off Search & Discovery boosts or pins that fight Featured. Disable or reconfigure merchandising apps that reorder the grid. Remove theme Liquid that sorts collection.products by created_at / price / title instead of the admin Manual order. Pause nightly CSV / API syncs that zero positions until you confirm a clean Save sticks. Publish Current theme, hard-refresh the live collection (no forced sort_by), walk mobile and desktop.

Honest retest: Admin Manual order matches the live Featured grid for the first page of products. Soft-link shopify-collection-sort-not-working when Manual order is fixed but the automatic Sort by dropdown is still stuck. Soft-link shopify-search-and-discovery-filters-broken when filters are the leftover gap. Soft-link shopify-collection-rules-not-matching when products still fail smart-collection membership.

Automatic Sort by price / best selling / newest dropdown stuck, missing, or ignoring URL params is shopify-collection-sort-not-working. Collection / storefront filters broken is shopify-search-and-discovery-filters-broken. Smart collection rules not matching products is shopify-collection-rules-not-matching. Collection pagination /page/2 SEO is shopify-collection-pagination-seo.

The only honest test for this page: Admin Sort is Manually / Featured, and the live grid order does not match those positions. Anything else is a different product.

Stay DIY if you can spend one afternoon on the list above: prove admin Manual sort_order vs theme Featured vs merchandising apps, repair, retest. That is the whole playbook. No agency required. Short answers also live on the merchant FAQ. Related pages: collection sort not working, Search & Discovery filters broken, collection rules not matching.

Pay for help when the work is not the Manual order itself — it is connecting the stack you already have so storefront / collection / merchandising exceptions land in a channel you already check, and the live store is one workflow instead of a spreadsheet plus a Slack bot you forgot. That is the Latch AI Ops install.

What $997 USD one-time buys: lead capture on the live store, ops alerts in a channel you already check, and a checkout-ready workflow. 72 hours after collaborator access, not after payment. One live Shopify store. Access plus a delivery thread. Store URL collected at checkout. Not a SaaS seat, not a theme rebuild retainer, not a conversion guarantee, not a brand or theme job.

Other shops' public ranges, not testimonials: a checkout / ops install typically runs $500–$2,500. A full ops consulting block typically runs $2,000–$5,000. $997 is the cheap end of that work, sold as a 72-hour install of three systems — not as an earnings number or conversion-lift claim.

What it does not buy: more orders, recovered revenue, a forever Manual-order guarantee, or a case study. Latch AI Ops has not published customer proof because there are no customers yet. You are buying the install.

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