Collections

Use the section that matches your caller: storefront clients use Shopper REST or Search, trusted services use Management, and signed-in customer flows use Auth. Prefer Search API for new discovery-heavy storefront work.

Use Collections when the job is about curated product groupings and collection hierarchy, not taxonomy-wide category navigation.

Management API collection operations own collection records, nested collection trees, product membership, and bulk collection or membership changes. Shopper API collection routes are read-only compatibility routes for storefront collection reads; prefer Search for new discovery-heavy storefront work.

Use collection-product operations when a product is being added to or removed from a curated collection. Use Products when the product record itself is changing.

For workflow guidance across taxonomy, curated merchandising groups, reusable labels, brand/series records, templates, and storefront discovery reads, see Catalog organization and discovery.

Shopper API · read

Read and inspect

Management API · read, create, update, remove, and bulk operations

Read and inspect

Create or attach

Update or repair

Remove or deactivate

Bulk operations