Yes — and this is one of the most underappreciated time-saving features BooksCloud offers. When you import books through BooksCloud, the app assigns genre and subgenre tags to each listing automatically. Shopify then uses those tags to build collections — organized groupings of products that appear in your store's navigation and can be browsed by customers.
How It Works
Every book in BooksCloud's catalog is classified by its publisher with genre and subgenre information. When BooksCloud pushes a book to your Shopify store, those classifications become Shopify tags on the product. Shopify's automated collection rules can then group all products sharing a given tag into a single collection.
In practice, this means:
- Import 200 mystery novels → a Mystery collection populates automatically
- Import 150 cookbooks → a Cooking collection appears
- Import a mix of genres → each genre gets its own collection, already organized
You do not create these collections manually. You do not write collection rules. The data structure BooksCloud applies at import makes the collections happen on their own.
What This Means for Store Navigation
A well-organized store is not just a customer experience improvement — it is an SEO asset. Collection pages are indexed by Google as distinct pages, each targeting a genre-based keyword cluster. A Romance collection page, for example, can rank for searches like "buy romance novels online" or "romance books for sale" independently of your individual product pages.
Without automated collections, merchants either spend hours setting up collection logic manually or end up with a flat, unsorted product list that is hard to navigate and impossible to rank with.
Author-Based Collections Too
In addition to genre tags, BooksCloud assigns author tags to each listing. This allows Shopify to build author-based collections as well — so if you carry 15 books by the same author, an author collection page can be created automatically.
For stores in niche markets — say, a store focused on a particular genre or subject area — author collections are a powerful way to serve readers who follow specific writers.
The Practical Upshot
You go from import to organized, navigable, SEO-ready store without touching Shopify's collection settings. For merchants adding hundreds or thousands of books, this saves hours of structural work and produces a result that is more consistent and thorough than most merchants would achieve manually.
Install BooksCloud free → https://apps.shopify.com/bookscloud