SmartCategories Dynamic Category Merchandising

SmartCategories is an intelligent category ordering extension for Magento 2 that helps you keep category pages focused on products customers can actually buy. This extension for Magento uses availability-aware scoring and optional merchandising boosts to surface in-stock items, deprioritize low-stock products, and reduce the need for manual category sorting.

SmartCategories can also detect fully out-of-stock categories to show a configurable message, suggest alternative sibling categories, and (optionally) hide fully out-of-stock leaf categories from navigation menus.

Features

• Availability-aware ordering: Prioritize in-stock products above out-of-stock products.
• Low-stock sensitivity: Optionally deprioritize items with low available quantity.
• Stable ordering: Deterministic ordering to avoid visual “jumping” across pagination.
• Out-of-stock category detection: Identify categories where all visible products are out of stock.
• OOS category messaging: Display a configurable message when a category is fully out of stock.
• Related collections (alternatives): Suggest active sibling categories as alternatives for fully OOS categories.
• Menu visibility logic: Optionally hide fully out-of-stock leaf categories from navigation menus (with safety guards).
• EOL-aware filtering (optional): Hide products that are both out of stock and marked as end-of-life (configurable attribute).
• Admin product boosts: Define product boosts per store and (optionally) per category.
• Time-limited campaign boosts: Schedule boosts with start and expiry dates.
• Priority bands: Force products to “always promote” or “never promote” positions.
• CSV import/export: Bulk manage product boosts via CSV (CLI commands).
• Hyva-ready storefront: Compatible with Hyva theme.

Demo

Try SmartCategories on our demo site.

Use Cases

• Keep category pages shoppable when inventory changes.
• Reduce dead-end browsing when entire categories go out of stock.
• Run merchandising campaigns with scheduled product boosts.

Benefits

• Surface purchasable items earlier in category listings.
• Reduce customer frustration in low-inventory situations.
• Save merchandising time while keeping ordering predictable.

Support

• Email support: Moogento support
• Contact form and live chat: Moogento Contact
• Additional product information: SmartCategories on Moogento