Settings reference

The admin Settings page controls the data-side of the directory: which brands are displayed, how they're grouped, what URLs they link to, and how out-of-stock brands behave. Visual settings (card style, spacing, columns) live in the theme block - see design and layout.

Accent handling

How Easy Brand Page treats vendors whose names start with accented or non-Latin characters when grouping them in the A-Z filter.

Standardize accents (checkbox)

When on, accents are folded for grouping. So a vendor starting with an accented A, U, or E groups under A, U, and E respectively, not under a separate accents group.

Turn this on if your A-Z filter is otherwise creating tiny separate groups for accented letters. Turn it off if you have many vendors in accented languages and want accented letters as their own groups.

Special character group symbol

The label used for brands that start with a non-Latin, non-numeric character (Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic, emoji, etc.) when they're grouped together.

Default: .... Common alternatives: Aa, #, your own symbol. Visible in the A-Z filter row as the label for that group.

Group numeric brands (checkbox)

When on, vendors starting with a digit (0-9) all group under one symbol in the A-Z filter, rather than appearing under "0", "1", "2", etc.

Turn this on if you have a handful of numeric brands. Turn it off if you have lots and want them separated.

Numeric group symbol

The label for the numeric group when "Group numeric brands" is on.

Default: #. Common alternatives: 0-9, Nums.

Mapping brands to products

How brand cards link to product lists: the app always tries a collection first - a manual mapping you set, or an auto-match to a collection with the vendor's name - and falls back to the search URL template below when there is none. See brand-to-collection mapping for the full matcher logic.

Search URL template

The URL pattern used when a brand has no collection match (or auto-match is off).

• Default: /collections/vendors?q=%brand% (Shopify's native vendor filter).
• %brand% is the placeholder for the vendor name (URL-encoded automatically).
• You can use any URL pattern that makes sense for your store.

Example custom templates:

• /search?type=product&q=vendor:%22%brand%%22 - uses the predictive search syntax.
• /pages/all?vendor=%brand% - if you have a custom page that filters via JS.

Brands are always sorted alphabetically by vendor name in the directory - there is no sort-order setting.

Brand visibility

Out of stock brands (dropdown)

What to do with vendors whose every product is sold out.

• Hide out-of-stock brands. Default. Cleaner storefront, but customers can't see vendors who might be back in stock soon.
• Show out-of-stock brands. Brands always appear in the directory regardless of stock. Useful if you frequently restock and don't want brand awareness gaps.

The stock check runs every scan. So a brand that sold out at 10am disappears (or stays, depending on setting) on the next sync.

Automatic sync

Auto-sync product changes (switch)

As the setting says: "When products are added, edited, or removed, your brand list re-scans and your storefront updates on its own within a few minutes. Scan now always works too."

The switch is on by default. A few details worth knowing:

• Changes are grouped for about 5 minutes of quiet before one re-scan runs, so a big product import becomes one scan instead of hundreds - at most about 30 minutes behind.
• The Brands page shows "(auto-sync)" after the "Last scanned" date when the newest scan was automatic.
• If a sync fails, the storefront simply keeps what it had - nothing disappears - and the app retries.
• Manual Scan now is unchanged and always available.

Turn the switch off if you prefer to update the directory only when you click Scan now. See the brand syncing mechanic for the full picture.

Import & export (CSV) - Premium

Bulk-edit your brands in a spreadsheet. Export CSV downloads every brand with these columns: vendor, collection_handle, create_page, tags (joined with |), favorite, hidden, website_url, link_to_website. Edit the file, then Import CSV to apply changes in bulk - map brands to collections by handle, create collection pages (type yes in create_page), add tags, star favorites, hide or unhide brands, and set website links.

Safety, by design:

• The import shows a preview first - exact counts per change, any problem rows, and an explicit line when collections will be created ("existing collections are linked, never duplicated"). Nothing happens until you click Apply import.
• Blank cells never change anything, tags are only ever added, and imports never delete - there is no way to remove data via CSV.
• Rows with unknown vendors or collection handles are skipped and reported, not guessed. Brands come from your product scan; the CSV can't invent them.
• Limits: up to 2000 rows per import. Each import is logged under Recent imports with its counts.

The quickest path there: the Import / export CSV button on the Brands page. CSV is part of the Premium plan.

Settings vs theme block

A common confusion:

• Settings = what brands appear and where they link. Admin app.
• Theme block = how they look. Theme editor.

If you're trying to change colours, spacing, columns, card style - open the theme editor and click the Brand Page block. If you're trying to change which brands show up, what they link to, or how they're grouped - use Settings.

What's next

• Troubleshooting - fixes when the storefront doesn't match your settings.