Pinning lets you manually fix specific products in exact positions within a product listing. This gives you full visual control over which products are shown first—ideal for highlighting campaigns, product launches, or high-priority items. It’s a useful way to complement automated relevance with brand storytelling or business rules. Pinning is part of editorial merchandising, giving merchandisers the power to influence product placement without overriding the underlying logic of the Elevate engine.
How it works
Pinning allows you to place selected products at the top of a product listing on any page that uses Landing page requests—such as category, brand, or campaign pages.
- Pinned products appear in the order they are pinned—first pinned = highest rank.
- You can drag and drop pinned products at any time to change the sequence.
- If a product is pinned within a slice, the order applies only within that slice.
- If pinned outside of slices, the product appears just after the final slice on the page.
Pinning is a way to apply external insights or business considerations—such as featuring sponsored products, boosting hero SKUs, or crafting a story-driven experience.
How to pin products
Go to the product listing or slice where you want to pin items.
- Hover over a product card and click the pin icon to fix its position.
- To change the order, simply drag and drop the products to set the new order.
Note: Don’t forget to save and publish the page. Changes won't be live until the parent page is published. Subpages will inherit pinning unless inheritance is disabled.
Setting it up
Pinning is available by default on all pages using Landing page requests.
You can use pinning on:
- Category pages
- Brand or collection pages
- Recommendation listings (as long as they're based on landing page structure)
You may pin products inside or outside slices, but the effect will differ:
- Inside slices: affects only the slice’s product order.
- Outside slices: positions the pinned product after all slices.
Keep in mind when pinning:
- The Add Slices view has a toggle to enable or disable inheritance to subpages.
- If you're managing multiple levels of pages (parent > child > subchild), edits made at the middle level will break inheritance from the top level.
- Deduplication applies: a product shown in multiple slices will only appear in the highest priority slice.
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