I changed the below line 208 in woocommerce-collapsing-categories.php and it works now, the default is not set correctly and there is no setting on the free plugin, setting it in the array at the top did not work:
204 $wcc_subcat_args = array(
205 ‘post_type’ => ‘product’,
206 ‘taxonomy’ => ‘product_cat’,
207 ‘title_li’ => ”,
208 ‘orderby’ => ‘name’, //$qp_orderby,
209 ‘order’ => $qp_order,
210 ‘depth’ => $wa_wcc_level,
211 ‘show_count’ => (bool)$show_count,
