TinyBackup
Collections
Manual and automated collections, which Shopify now stores as one collection type. A collection is filled by one or more sources: a conditions source (rules plus hand-picked products, with optional exclusion rules and exclusions) or a list of sub-collections. The sources, product order, image, metafields and sales channel publications are included. Backups taken before the merge, when Shopify still had separate manual and automated collections, are shown and restored the same way. Sales channels are only backed up when the store has granted the sales channel (read_publications) permission.
86 fields backed up
Description (HTML)
URL handle
Shopify ID
Product sort order
Theme template used for the collection
Collection title
Date the collection was last updated
Collection image
Image alt text
Image height in pixels
Shopify ID of the image
Image file (the image itself is stored in the backup)
Image width in pixels
Metafieldslist — each item includes
Date the metafield was created
Shopify ID of the metafield
Metafield key
Metafield namespace
Metafield value type (e.g. single line text, JSON, product reference)
Date the metafield was last updated
Metafield value
Products in the collection, in their current order (first 250); used to restore a hand-picked orderlist — each item includes
Shopify ID of the product
Sales channels it is published to (including scheduled publications)list — each item includes
Date it was (or will be) published on that channel
Sales channel
Shopify ID of the sales channel
Sources that fill the collection with productslist — each item includes
Shopify ID of the source
Source title
Source description
Whether the source is shared across several collections (a shared source is linked on restore, not recreated)
Whether conditions match whole products or individual variants
App that created the source, if any (kept for reference, not restored)
Shopify ID of the app
App name
App handle
Rules and hand-picked products that add products to the collection
Whether products must match any condition or all conditions
Conditions that add products (by tag, title, type, vendor, status, category, variant title, price, compare-at price, inventory, weight or metafield)list — each item includes
Shopify ID of the condition
Whether the product must match any or all of the condition values
Comparison (equals, contains, greater than, etc.)
Values to compare against, for conditions that take a list (tags, titles, types, vendors, statuses, categories, metafield values, metaobjects)list — each item includes
Whether products in subcategories also match
Shopify ID of the metaobject, for metaobject conditions
Product category, for category conditions
Shopify ID of the category
Category name
Value to compare against, for conditions that take a single value (price, compare-at price, inventory, weight, metafield value, metaobject)
Weight unit
Weight amount
Shopify ID of the metaobject
Metafield definition the condition checks, for metafield conditions
Shopify ID of the metafield definition
Metafield definition name
Metafield key
Metafield namespace
Products hand-picked into the collectionlist — each item includes
Shopify IDs of the hand-picked variants, when only some variants of the product were picked
Hand-picked product
Shopify ID of the product
Product title
Product URL handle
Rules and hand-picked products that remove products from the collection
Whether products must match any condition or all conditions to be removed
Conditions that remove products (by tag, type, vendor, category or membership of another collection)list — each item includes
Shopify ID of the condition
Whether the product must match any or all of the condition values
Comparison (equals, contains, etc.)
Values to compare against (tags, types, vendors, categories or collections)list — each item includes
Whether products in subcategories also match
Shopify ID of the excluded collection
Title of the excluded collection
Product category, for category conditions
Shopify ID of the category
Category name
Products hand-picked out of the collectionlist — each item includes
Excluded product
Shopify ID of the product
Product title
Product URL handle
Sub-collections whose products fill this collectionlist — each item includes
Shopify ID of the sub-collection
Sub-collection title
Sub-collection URL handle
Generated from the queries the backup runs, so this list always matches what is stored. Themes are backed up as complete theme files and are not listed field by field.