# Create a collection

Name a collection, describe it, choose whether it fills by rules or by hand, and set it active.

A collection needs a name and a decision: rules, or your own picking. Everything else can be filled in afterwards.

![A collection open for editing, with Collection name, a Description editor, a Cover image control and a Status of Active, then a Collection type card offering Manual and Smart.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/storefront/collections/collection-detail.png)

*Name it, describe it, then choose how it fills.*

- Go to **Collections** and select **New collection**.
- In **Collection name**, enter the name a shopper will see.
- In **Description**, write a sentence or two for the collection's own page.
- Under **Collection type**, choose **Smart** to fill it with rules or **Manual** to pin products yourself.
- Set **Status** to **Active** when it is ready to be offered, or leave it **Inactive** while you work on it.
- Select **Save**.

Name the collection the way a customer would ask for it. "Next Day Despatch" is a collection somebody looks for; "Category 4B" is a filing reference.

> **Note:**
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> **Save stays unavailable until the collection has a name**
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> The name is the only field a collection cannot do without. Conditions, products, the description and the cover image can all wait.

## Change the type later

Switching between **Smart** and **Manual** is allowed after a collection exists, and the two hold their memberships separately. Products you pinned by hand are kept when you switch to smart, and they are still there if you switch back, so experimenting with rules does not cost you the hand-picked set.

## Delete a collection

Open the collection and select **Delete**. Storefront asks you to confirm. Deleting the collection does not delete the products in it: they stay in the catalogue and stay published, they simply stop being grouped this way.