Can a store have less than 10 collections?

[welshdesigns]

I've set up some stores, and I know you need to have 10 collections to get zrank of 4 to allow listing on Zazzle itself.  But once the store is up and running can you remove a collection and still stay at 4?

[Sara_H]

@welshdesigns Your zrank is very fluid - it will go up and it will go down in your store's lifetime. It very rarely stays at one number but once you hit 4 - it shouldn't go any lower (in theory though ymmv)

Don't worry about your zrank. Focus on things you can control - promoting your products and getting sales/referrals and let the mysterious zrank algorithm do it's thing.

if you have many shops you can show the same collections in all of your shops if you want
edit collection - Store Availability and check/uncheck as required (then save)

But I'm curious - why would you want to remove collections from your stores? 

[welshdesigns]

They are new stores and I don’t have enough products for 10 collections.  I’m organizing a bit differently than when I started them.  It’s clutter sorting them every time I want to ass something to a collection too.  

[Windy]

Little known fact:  You can create ten collections using the same ten products. This is true even when you have only ten products in your store.

[welshdesigns]

Yeah, that’s essentially what I did opening my stores.  I have several stores, and I’m not loving having so many different collections.  I’m finding I’m putting a new product in at least 3 or 4 of the collections and they start all looking alike.  So I feel that’s not a great customer experience to look at them and find the same products.  Ideally I’d like each collection to have totally different products.  At least that’s how my brain feels about this.  Like I’ve said before I have no idea what’s best on Stores, Collections, Grouping etc. so still winging it a bit. 

[Windy]

What I do is dummy up all the ten collections when I start a new store. Then later, when I have more products, and I make a new collection, which is a "real" collection, I go ahead and delete  one of the original junk collections. I call them stuff like collection one, collection two, collection three. That way, I know immediately which collections are just "junk" and I can delete any one of those without worrying I am making a mistake.  By the way, I think you can also just put ONE product in each of the dummy collections. I don't think you have to add ten products.

If I did not do it this way, the constant warnings about getting the store up to speed would drive me nuts.