How to Find Hidden Best Selling Products on Any Shopify Store

When starting a dropshipping store or launching a new product line, you want to focus on items that have already proven to sell. Inspecting successful Shopify competitors in your niche is a great way to source product ideas. While most store owners hide their sales dashboards, Shopify's underlying architecture has a built-in sorting method that exposes their top-performing catalog items.

In this guide, we'll explain how to find the hidden best-selling products on any Shopify store using a simple URL parameters hack.

The Shopify Best-Selling Collection Hack

By default, Shopify creates a system collection that contains every product in the store. By applying a specific sorting query parameter to the URL, you force Shopify to organize the collection by sales volume. Here is how to do it:

1. Go to the homepage of the target competitor (e.g. `https://competitor-store.com`).
2. In your browser's address bar, append `/collections/all` to the root domain. This opens the store's default catalog containing all products.
3. Now, append `?sort_by=best-selling` to the end of the URL. The final URL should look like this:
   `https://competitor-store.com/collections/all?sort_by=best-selling`
4. Press **Enter**.

The collection will reload. The products will now be organized in order of sales volume, with their all-time top-selling product displaying as the first item in the grid, followed by the second best-seller, and so on!

How to Export This Best-Seller List

Once you load the sorted best-seller collection page:

• Open the **Shopify Product Exporter** Chrome extension.
• Click **Download Products**. The extension will extract all product data in the exact sorted order displayed on your screen.
• Save the catalog as an Excel or CSV file. The top rows in your sheet now represent their absolute best-performing products, giving you a ready-made sourcing checklist for your supplier research!

Why This Information is Crucial

Identifying competitor best-sellers allows you to:

• Reduce Sourcing Risk: Avoid wasting money testing products that aren't generating interest. Focus your marketing budget on items with proven demand.
• Optimize Advertising: Create ads for products similar to your competitor's best-sellers, as they are already converting well.
• Analyze Upsell Potential: Notice if their best-selling products are accessories or standalone items, and plan bundles or upsells accordingly.

Conclusion

With a simple URL tweak, you can uncover key competitor sales data. Combined with **Shopify Product Exporter**, you can download and format these best-seller lists instantly, accelerating your product validation process.