Settings reference

The admin Settings page in Easy Brand 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 Ångström, Über, and Élan group 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.

Match brands to collections (dropdown)

Two options:

• Yes, match collection first, then search URL. Tries to auto-match each vendor to a collection of the same name. Falls back to the search URL if no match. Default and recommended for most stores.
• No, always use search URL. Skips the auto-match entirely. Every brand uses the search URL template.

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.

Default brand sort order (dropdown)

Three options:

• Alphabetical. A-Z by vendor name. Default and most common.
• Most products first. Brands with the largest catalogue first. Highlights your biggest sellers.
• None. Insertion order (the order vendors were first scanned). Rarely useful.

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.

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

• Brand syncing - when settings re-apply.
• Design and layout - the visual half of the equation.