How many new collections can Sauron make for me?
Each plan includes a number of new collections a month, shared between the ones Sauron adds on its own and the ones you approve. They're spaced out week to week so new pages appear gradually. Suggestions that don't fit stay saved until there's room.
Collections → Collections we could add for you, with the number left next to it (in Detailed view; switch in the sidebar). Settings → Autopilot → Create high-demand collections turns automatic building on or off.
Open this in the app (opens your Shopify admin in a new tab)
The allowance on each plan
- Starter: 3 a month. You approve each one.
- Growth: 8 a month. Sauron builds them itself, or you approve them.
- Scale: 20 a month. Same as Growth.
- Free trial: 3 in total, counted from the day the trial started. Whether they build by themselves still follows the plan you're trialling.
Every new collection counts once, however it was made: added automatically, approved by you, or split out of an existing collection. If Shopify refuses to create one, it isn't counted. The month resets on the 1st.
Spaced out week to week
No more than about a third of the month's allowance goes live in any 7 days (at least one): Starter 1 a week, Growth 3, Scale 7. When you hit that, the page says the next one goes live, or you can add more, within 7 days. Upgrading doesn't lift the weekly spacing; it's there so your store doesn't gain a pile of new pages overnight.
Which suggestions build by themselves
On Growth and Scale, Sauron builds queued suggestions every Monday morning (UTC), up to what's left of your allowance. A suggestion is queued when:
- About 250 or more people search for it a month, and
- At least 2 of your products fit it.
Queued means expected, not guaranteed: on the day it also checks the collection isn't a near-copy of one you have, and that Google shows shop pages (not articles) for that search.
Other suggestions sit under “Skipped for now” (few searches, or too few products), or are marked as needing your approval: collections based on searches, local-area pages and splits by gender, material or age are only ever created when you approve them.
Which ones go first
When the allowance can't cover everything, Settings → Collections & navigation → Which collections to build first decides the order (Growth and Scale): main collections first (the default), sub-categories first, or a balance of both.