Magento 2 Dynamic Categories

It assigns products to categories by rules instead of by hand. You set conditions on product attributes and smart conditions such as discount percentage, stock or rating, and the extension adds a product to the category when it starts matching and removes it when it stops, for example after its attributes or price change.

A typical example is a promo category. Each promo product has a special price for its own period, so adding products when a promotion starts and removing them when it expires takes a lot of manual work. With Dynamic Categories, products join and leave the promo category automatically.

Yes. Use the Percent Discount condition, for example "Percent Discount equals or greater than 15" for a promo category and "equals or greater than 25" for a super promo category. The discount is calculated from the indexed price, so special prices and catalog price rules are included. To include any discounted product regardless of the amount, use Is Discounted or Has Active Special Price.

Any product attribute with Use for Promo Rule Conditions set to Yes. On top of that, there are smart conditions: Is New, Created, Has Active Special Price, Is Discounted, Percent Discount, Stock Quantity, Is Salable, Rating, Number of reviews, Product Type and Source (MSI). Conditions can be combined in AND/OR groups, text values can be matched by a pattern, and each attribute can be checked on the parent product or on its child variants.

If you don't see an attribute in the list, enable Use for Promo Rule Conditions for it in the attribute settings.

Stock Quantity and Is Salable are checked on the child variants, so a configurable product joins the category when any of its variants matches, for example when one size is in stock. With Add parent automatically enabled, the configurable product is shown in the category when one of its children matches. You can also check an attribute on the parent only or on the children only.

Yes. A dynamic category can hold products assigned by the rule and products you add by hand. The product grid marks each item as Manual or By rule, and manual picks stay in place through reindexes. If you want categories to follow their rules only, turn off Allow manual product assignment in the settings.

By position, which you control in the built-in visual merchandiser on the category page: drag and drop products in grid or tile view, or sort the list by name or SKU. Manual positions are kept when the category is reindexed, and the merchandiser works for regular categories too.

For rule-based sorting such as bestsellers or top rated first, add the Improved Sorting extension: its criteria appear in the same merchandiser list.

On Magento Open Source, yes: you get rule-based categories and a visual merchandiser with drag-and-drop positions, grid and tile view. On Adobe Commerce, Dynamic Categories works next to the built-in Visual Merchandiser and keeps it from rebuilding the categories your rules manage.

Yes. On the storefront, dynamic categories are regular Magento categories: products are saved as standard category assignments, and the extension itself runs only in the admin. That's why they work with Hyvä and any other theme, with Adobe Live Search and with headless storefronts that read categories through standard Magento GraphQL.

Yes. There is no hard limit on dynamic categories or products, and one store runs 600 dynamic categories over a 100,000-product catalog. Category updates are processed in a background queue, and product validation on save can run asynchronously, so saving products doesn't slow down the admin. Each category shows its queue status, and Force Reindex rebuilds it on demand.

Yes. With Multi-Source Inventory, use the Source condition (source is or is not the selected source) and pick the source from the drop-down. Is Salable also takes MSI stock into account.

Yes. Use the Load Conditions From option and select the dynamic category to copy from: its conditions are loaded right away, and you can adjust them before saving. The option is available from version 1.0.17.

Catalog price rules, yes: Is Discounted and Percent Discount use the indexed price, which includes catalog price rules and special prices. Shopping cart rules can't be used, because they apply only within a specific cart and to the products in it.

There is no built-in import or export. The rules are stored in the mst_dynamic_category table (manual picks in mst_dynamic_category_link), so you can back them up or copy them with any database tool. Rules are linked to category IDs, so a copy works on a store with the same category IDs.