Listing items in ascending order in a store
When I or shoppers view my store, the default presentation shows my items in a rather random order, probably related to posting sequence. I'm aware I can, by using the "sort by" button, choose "country/catalog number" which shows my listings in the desired ascending order. Is there a way to make that my default orientation when first accessing my store? Thanks for any help.
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Instead of the default store link:
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/the-philatarium
... I provide the link that includes the command to sort my listings by country and catalog order:
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/the-philatarium/?sort=catalog
It's basically a low-tech workaround, and, of course, it doesn't work if someone just happens to stumble upon your store.
So, for several years, I had that second, longer link in my signature on stamp discussion sites.
However, a few months ago, I decided to go back to the original, non-sorted store link. Even *I* actually find it more inviting, and it seems to throw more recently seen items up to the top (I think).
I do agree that it would be helpful to have what we had on BidStart: the ability to show one country first as the primary one, and then have everything after it show up in alphabetical and catalog order after that. (Plus the custom searches, like we've recently discussed again in another topic on here.)
If you have a store with 25,000 items, and I go to your store to see what you have in Malaysia, such an "A to Z" sort doesn't do me any good. I would have to approximate what store page contains Malaysia, and bounce around until I find it. What I do is do a store search by entering "Malaysia". Then everything that you have for Malaysia appears in the search result.
If I don't have a Scott catalog, the sort by Scott number is meaningless.
If your answer is that searching the store for "Malaysia" is what should be done, then that only validates that the "A to Z" store sort doesn't matter. So, what is the fixation to have things line up in an order that isn't helpful anyway?
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Currently, the default sort order which is used within HipStamp, as well as within HipStamp Stores is the "Best Match" sort order. This is not a random order, but a custom algorithm we have built, which takes into account a wide variety of factors, and is designed to result in the most amount of sales based on testing, both within HipStamp in general, as well as within HipStamp Stores. This is the reason this is our default sort order, as opposed to other options we make available, as this sort order performs the best with regards to sales.
With that in mind, we would not change the default sort order to another option, as extensive testing and work on our Best Match algorithm currently provides the best rate of sales for HipStamp, and for our Sellers.
That being said, we appreciate the feedback from yourself, and other members in our community forums. Feature requests are an important part of our product development process, and help to guide and prioritize new features, along with many other factors. With that in mind, while this feature is not currently planned, we'll keep it in mind. For more information on how we use feature requests, please see the following: https://www.hipstamp.com/forums/discussion/1238/how-were-listening-to-your-feature-requests#latest
This would be FANTASTIC! . . and I know for me it will lead to many more purchases!!