Shopify - Faster Collection Management with Duplication & Tag Exclusions

Shopify is rolling out a series of quality-of-life updates in November 2025, focusing on saving merchants time and providing granular control over their product collections. These new tools are all about streamlining common, repetitive tasks so you can focus on growing your store.

Here are the new features you can start using today.

Duplicate Collections in a Single Click

Merchants no longer have to rebuild complex collections from scratch. You can now duplicate any collection to create an exact copy, saving hours of manual work.

This new "Duplicate" feature copies everything, including:

• Title and description
• Collection image
• Conditions (for smart collections)
• The manual product list (for manual collections)

Why it matters: This is a massive time-saver for stores that run frequent promotions, manage seasonal collections, or need to create slightly different versions of a collection for different markets.

When you duplicate a collection, Shopify automatically keeps the copy unpublished. This gives you a safe, staging environment to make any necessary tweaks before you set it live.

Exclude Products by Tag in Smart Collections

Shopify has added a powerful new operator to smart collection conditions: "is not equal to" for product tags.

This simple change gives you a new level of automated control. You can now set up smart collections that automatically leave out products with specific tags.

Why it matters: This makes managing large and complex catalogs much easier. You can use this feature to:

• Refine Themed Collections: Automatically exclude items from a "Summer Sale" collection if you tag them as "New Arrival."
• Omit Recalled Items: Add a "recalled" tag to a product, and it will instantly disappear from all relevant smart collections.
• Exclude from Promotions: Tag specific products as "promo-exempt" to keep them from being automatically included in a "20% Off" collection that's based on other rules.

This "is not equal to" operator works alongside your other conditions, giving you a flexible new tool for refining your store's merchandising.

Getting Started

Both of these features are rolling out now and are available in your Shopify admin.

• To duplicate a collection: Navigate to Products > Collections and click the name of the collection you want to copy. You will see a new "Duplicate" button on that page.
• To use tag exclusions: Go to Products > Collections and either create a new smart collection or edit an existing one. When setting the conditions, select "Product tag", and you will now see the "is not equal to" operator in the dropdown list.