# Guide

### Push Down & Hide Out of Stock **Start Guide**

Our application has three main features;

1. Push down the out-of-stock products to the bottom of the collection.
2. Hide the out-of stock-products.
3. Unhide the back-in-stock products.

You can use all features, or you can use only one of them you need. Please follow the instructions below based on your preferences.

### To use the Push Down feature

1. Go to the[ Push Down Settings](https://merchbees.com/oos-sorter/setting) page. <br>
2. Choose a sort type from the *Push Down Sort Type* combo box and Save it.\
   (This sort type is applied to your collections when you enabled them from the *Push Down Collections* page.)<br>
3. Go to the [Push Down Collections](https://merchbees.com/oos-sorter) page.<br>
4. If you want to sort all collections, you can enable all of them with only three clicks.
   1. Click the check box that is on the top of the check box column.
   2. Click the *Enable X Selected Collections* button.
   3. Click the *Yes* button on the appearing information box.

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If you want to sort some specific collections, you can select them by clicking the checkboxes for each of them.&#x20;

5\.  If you want to set a different sort type for some collections, you can change their sort types by clicking the Gear icon on the *Actions* column.&#x20;

{% hint style="success" %}
Out-of-stock products in enabled collections are pushed down and products re-ordered according to the sorting rule.
{% endhint %}

### To use the Hide and Unhide features

1. Go to the [Auto Hide & Publish](https://merchbees.com/oos-sorter/hide) page.<br>
2. Check the *Hide all of my out of stock products* option<br>
3. Enter a day number to  *Days after hide* field to specify when the out-of-stock products are hidden. \
   When you enable the hiding option, current out-of-stock products are hidden after the days you set.

{% hint style="info" %}
If you want to hide your out-of-stock products immediately, you need to set this field to 0.&#x20;
{% endhint %}

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4\. If you want to publish (unhide) the products automatically when they are in stock, check *Publish items...* option.

{% hint style="warning" %}
The application publishes the products only that were hidden by our application. It doesn’t publish the products you make unpublished manually, although they may have a positive inventory.
{% endhint %}

5\. Click the Save button.

:wave: If you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact us! We are always here to help!\
You can say hello with live chat on [merchbees.com](https://merchbees.com/) or send an email to <support@merchbees.com>.