> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.marzipan.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Collections

> Group pages and posts into ordered collections for navigation menus and listings.

Collections are ordered groupings of [pages](/cms/pages) and [posts](/cms/posts). They're the way you build navigation menus and listings for your site, without hard-coding those links into a template.

To find your collections, click on **CMS** in the main navigation menu, then open **Collections**.

<Note>
  These are **CMS collections**, which group content. They are not the same as [product collections](/collections/overview), which group products in your catalogue.
</Note>

## What a collection holds

A collection is an ordered list of items. Each item in a collection can have its own:

* **Title**
* **Link**
* **Description**

Because the list is ordered, the sequence you set in the dashboard is the sequence your visitors see — so a collection works equally well as a navigation menu or as a curated listing.

## Using collections

Collections are useful for:

* **Navigation menus** — a header or footer menu, with each item pointing at a page
* **Listings** — a blog index, a set of guides, or any other grouping of content you want to surface together

Collections are also available over the headless CMS API at `/v1/cms/collections`, so a front end hosted elsewhere can pull the same navigation and listings. See the [API reference](/api-reference/introduction).