ITP-W06-Shopify Store - Assignment 4 - Collections and Navigation

1 Overview

This report documents Assignment 4 — organizing the CPP Farm Store Shopify prototype (cpp-farm-store-dev.myshopify.com) into browsable collections with a clear main navigation menu. Ten collections already existed on the store from earlier work in this project, so this assignment focused on verifying those collections meet the assignment’s merchandising bar and on auditing and correcting the main navigation menu, which turned out to have two mislabeled links pointing to the wrong collections entirely.

ImportantWhat this assignment actually found

Auditing the live navigation menu turned up a real bug: the “Fresh Produce” menu link was wired to the Fruit Boxes collection instead of the actual Fresh Produce collection, and a menu item labeled “Student Favorites” was wired to the generic Featured Products collection instead of Student Snacks & Drinks. Both were corrected directly through the Shopify Admin API this session, and a third link to the Specialty Foods collection was added since it did not appear in the main menu at all.¹

2 Collections

?@tbl-collections lists the store’s collections at the time of this assignment. At least three were required; the store has ten, organized around how a real customer would describe what they came in for rather than an internal product taxonomy.

CPP Farm Store Shopify collections

Collection	Handle	Products	Purpose
Fresh Produce	fresh-produce	4	Seasonal fruits and vegetables — the store’s core, most-visited category
Specialty Foods	specialty-foods	4	Honey, salsa, orange juice, fresh baked bread — pantry-style local goods
Student Snacks & Drinks	student-snacks-drinks	5	Cold brew, ice cream, grab-and-go items priced and framed for students
Gift Baskets	gift-baskets	7	Ready-made curated baskets
Gifts	gifts	9	Broader gift-box category, including customizable boxes
Fruit Boxes	fruit-boxes	5	Produce-based gift boxes (citrus, avocado/satsuma) — distinct from everyday Fresh Produce
CPP Favorites	cpp-favorites	9	Cross-category collection of the most campus-branded items
Seasonal Bundles	seasonal-bundles	2	Holiday and limited-time items
Featured Products	products	11	Homepage merchandising collection, not a customer-facing category label
All Products	all	15	Full catalog fallback

Figure 1: Collections in the Shopify admin. (Placeholder generated for this draft; replace with a live screenshot of the URL noted on the image before final submission.)