Shopify's /collections/all page is the digital equivalent of dumping every product in your store onto one table and calling it a display. Unfiltered, unsortable, and if sold-out products are showing up there, it's quietly sending shoppers to your competitors.
The fun part: Shopify creates it automatically, and you can't delete it. You can only outsmart it.
🎯 Quick Summary
- /collections/all can't be deleted natively, but it can be redirected to your homepage in seconds.
- Sold-out sizes and colors showing on product pages confuse shoppers and hurt conversions.
- Hide Out of Stock (Starter & Pro) handles both with a single toggle, no code required.
- A 10-minute fix with same-day results. There is no good reason to leave it broken.
🔀 Redirect /collections/all to Your Homepage
Every Shopify store has a /collections/all URL that renders every published product in one giant, unfiltered list. No sorting, no logic. Just chaos with a theme wrapper.
Customers end up there when a theme bug, a third-party app, or a misconfigured menu drops a link to it. The result is a disorienting page that makes your store look unfinished.
The manual way: Go to Shopify Admin > Online Store > Navigation > URL Redirects. Add a redirect from /collections/all to / (your homepage). It takes about 90 seconds.
The catch is that Shopify's native redirect doesn't intercept collection URLs the same way it handles product URLs. Some themes and apps bypass it entirely. You set it, feel good about it, then find out a month later it was never actually firing for most visitors.
The cleaner fix: Hide Out of Stock's Starter and Pro plans include a proper /collections/all redirect. One toggle in the app settings, and the page reliably sends visitors to your homepage. No workarounds, no surprises during a traffic spike.
If you're already automatically hiding out-of-stock products, this pairs perfectly: fewer products visible, and the catch-all page no longer shows the ones that slipped through.
🎨 Hide Unavailable Variants for a Cleaner Product Page
You know the feeling: you find a great product, pick your size, and watch half the options turn grey. Shopify's default behavior shows sold-out variants as disabled. Technically functional. Visually, it looks like something is broken.
Greyed-out options confuse shoppers. They click around, assume the product is half-discontinued, and leave. Your bounce rate rises. Your conversion rate drops. Nobody wins.
The manual way: Write custom Liquid code to hide variants conditionally. It works per product, until your theme updates and breaks everything. Not a system. A chore.
The better way: Hide Out of Stock's variant hide feature (Starter and Pro) automatically removes sold-out sizes, colors, and options from the product page picker. Their variant photos disappear too. What's left is a clean, shoppable page showing only what customers can actually add to cart.
This matters for SEO too. A product page showing only available options looks more authoritative to search engines and converts better for humans. Two birds, one feature.
💡 Pro tip: Tag pre-order or coming-soon products (e.g.,pre-order,nohide) so the app skips them and keeps those pages live and indexable.
Stop showing what you can't sell
Hide Out of Stock automatically hides sold-out products and variants, redirects /collections/all, and restores everything the moment inventory returns.
✅ What You Get in One App
- Auto-hides products the moment every variant hits zero stock
- Auto-restores when any variant comes back in stock
- One-click full catalog scan to catch everything already out of stock on install
- Hides sold-out variants and their photos from the product page (Starter & Pro)
- Redirects /collections/all to your homepage (Starter & Pro)
- SEO-safe 301 redirects when a product is hidden, removed automatically on restore (Pro)
- Tag exclusions keep pre-order and coming-soon products always visible
- Only touches products it hid. Your manual drafts stay exactly as you left them.
- Free plan available. Paid plans from $9.99/month with a 7-day free trial.
🚀 Why This Is Worth Fixing Today
The /collections/all page and greyed-out variants are two of the most common ways Shopify stores accidentally look unfinished. They don't throw error messages. They just quietly erode trust and conversions, every single day.
Fixing both takes about 10 minutes. And if out-of-stock products are still floating to the top of your collections, that's a separate fix worth making at the same time.
The free plan handles auto-hide and auto-restore. For the /collections/all redirect and variant hiding, you're on the Starter plan at $9.99/month. Roughly the cost of one abandoned cart. For a fix that prevents hundreds.
