This guide walks you through your first few minutes with the app. By the end, Nada will be quietly sorting and hiding sold-out products in the background while you get on with the rest of your day.
Nada has two main features you can use independently or together: Sorting (keep sold-out items at the bottom of collection pages) and Hiding (unpublish sold-out products entirely). Most merchants start with sorting because it's the gentler of the two — products stay visible, they just move position.
Step 1: Turn on sorting for your collections
Head to the Sort collections page. You'll see a list of every collection in your store with an Auto-sort toggle next to each one.
Flip the Auto-sort toggle to Auto-sorting active for any collection you'd like Nada to manage. Within a few seconds (or a few minutes for large collections), Nada will reorder the collection so that sold-out products move to the bottom while in-stock products stay in whatever sort order you already had — manual, best-selling, alphabetical, whatever.
You can also change the product sort type for any collection by clicking the Edit button.
To enable sorting across many collections at once, use the bulk action Enable sorting for all collections at the top of the list instead of toggling each one individually.
A few things worth knowing:
Timing: re-sorting is automatic whenever inventory changes. For collections with fewer than 100 products, the next sort runs within about 30 minutes. Larger collections take longer — up to 24 hours for collections with 10,000+ products — to avoid overloading your store with constant reshuffling.
Manual sorts are preserved: if you've hand-arranged a collection, Nada keeps your order for the in-stock products and only moves sold-out ones to the end. When they're back in stock, they return to their original spot.
Shopify admin sort: once Nada is managing a collection, Shopify admin will show it as "Manually" sorted. Leave this setting alone — changing it in Shopify disables Nada's auto-sort for that collection.
That's sorting done. If you only want sorting and not hiding, you can stop here — Nada will keep your collection pages tidy indefinitely.
Step 2: Enable hiding for sold-out products (optional)
Sorting keeps sold-out products visible but lower down. Hiding goes a step further: it unpublishes sold-out products from your storefront entirely and automatically republishes them when they're back in stock.
Head to the Hide products page and click the button Enable auto-hiding. The first time you enable hiding, Nada scans your catalog and hides everything currently sold out — this can take up to an hour on larger stores. After that, hiding happens in the background whenever a product goes out of stock.
When the product is hidden by Nada it stays in Active status, but is unpublished from the Online store sales channel.
A few important things about hiding:
Every hidden product gets a
nada-hiddentag in Shopify, which makes it easy to filter or export your hidden inventory.Nada only manages the Online Store channel. If you sell on Google, Facebook, or other channels, those listings stay live. Many merchants use Shopify Flow to cover other channels.
If you want to keep certain sold-out products visible (for example, a hero item or a coming-soon product), add the
nada-ignoretag to them in Shopify. Nada will skip those products entirely.Hidden products can return a 404 if someone visits their direct URL. To protect your SEO, head to Settings and enable Redirects — you can send visitors to your homepage or a custom page of your choice.
Heads up: turning hiding OFF unhides everything at once, and turning it back ON re-hides them via the Shopify API, which can take hours on large catalogs. Try not to toggle it on and off casually.
Step 3: Turn on low-stock email alerts (optional)
Sorting and hiding react to inventory after the fact. Alerts give you a heads-up before things run out, so you can reorder in time.
Head to the Low stock alerts page and pick the alert type that fits you:
Low stock email — sent when a product or variant drops below a stock threshold you choose.
Out-of-stock email — sent the moment a product or variant hits zero.
You can use either one, or both together. Next, choose how often you want the emails:
Immediately when stock drops below the threshold or sells out (delivered within about 5 minutes).
Once per day at an hour you pick.
Once per week on a day you pick — sent at midnight.
Add up to 5 recipient email addresses, separated by commas. If your team splits the work, this is an easy way to make sure the right person gets notified.
An example of the low stock e-mail alert from Nada
A couple of things to know:
You can set alerts per variant (one email per variant that drops low) or per product (one email only when all variants are low/out). Variant mode is noisier but more precise; product mode is quieter but can miss single-variant issues.
Each product only gets alerted once per state change — so if you switch from immediate to daily after already receiving an immediate alert for Product A, Product A won't show up again in the daily digest.
By default, Nada monitors stock across all locations. You can narrow this to specific locations, and each location alerts independently.
Step 4: Check your storefront
That's it — Nada is now running. Give it a few minutes (or up to an hour if you have a large catalog) until all collections are in the green "Auto-sorting active" state, open one of the collections you enabled sorting on by clicking the eye icon.
Scroll to the bottom — you should see your sold-out products collected there, with in-stock items up top.
If anything looks off — a sold-out item that hasn't moved, a product that shouldn't be hidden, or a timing question — check the rest of this help center or ping us via the in-app chat or at [email protected].