# Collection

Once you have added some individual products to your store, it is likely you will want to categorise these in some way, organising them into groups. 

If you are a clothing store, you may sell many different types of apparel, such as hoodies, socks, jeans, gloves, hats, tees and so on. You could create a collection for each of the above.

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**Note**

The more items you offer, the more important it is that your products remain easy to find, both for your customers and yourself.
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Collections can be linked to on your storefront so they display a certain number of products (with product images), from that collection, or you could add a simpler, text link, in your footer, for example.

### Explaining a Collection

* Collections are a group of individual Products.
* A single Product can be featured in multiple collections across your site (multiple versions of this Product are not required in your admin).
* Collections and the Products they contain are not controlled by the theme - this is solely dictated by the Shopify platform.
* Collections can be either: \
  [**Manual**](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/collections/manual-shopify-collection) or [**Automatic**](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/collections/automated-collections)

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**Tip**

Here is Shopify’s guide on how to [**create a collection**](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/collections):
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