Boost & bury
Boost & bury rules add automatic product grouping before Category Merchandiser applies the selected base sort order.
By default, the rules apply only to unpinned products. Pinned products remain at the top of the category in the order set in the Visual Merchandiser.
Configure the rules
- Open a category and select Settings.
- In Boost & bury, enable the rules you need.
- Choose Save, or Save and enable if merchandising is disabled.
Category Merchandiser processes the category in the background. Allow a few minutes for the updated Featured Items order to appear on the storefront.
Rule behaviour
Bury out of stock products
Moves out-of-stock products to the end of the category. A product is treated as out of stock when any of these conditions apply:
- Inventory is tracked at product level and the product inventory is
0. - Inventory is tracked at variant level and every purchasable variant has inventory of
0. - The product is marked as unavailable for purchase.
Boost on sale products
Moves an on-sale product towards the beginning of the category. A product qualifies only when every variant is discounted. BigCommerce does not show category-page discount messaging when only some variants are discounted, so Category Merchandiser does not boost those products.
Show available and in stock before pre-orders
Groups available, in-stock products ahead of pre-order products. Because pre-orders have no current stock, this rule also places out-of-stock products after in-stock products.
Allow pinned products to be buried
Allows pinned products that are out of stock to move below available products when Bury out of stock products is enabled. Their pinned order is retained within the resulting stock group.
Leave this disabled when every pinned product must remain at the top, regardless of stock status.