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Enhance Your Shopify Data Export: Custom Columns

- Our extensions, Shopify

How to Bulk Update Shopify Product SKUs

Although Shopify’s default export is enough for transferring data within the ecosystem, you may face multiple inconveniences when exporting data to third parties. The problem starts when you leave the territory of your e-commerce platform. Since Shopify applies a unique system of column names to the data you export, it is impossible to deliver your CSVs to third parties unless you replace the default column names with the ones the accepting party requires. Luckily, there is a more user-friendly and convenient solution. 

Below, you will learn how to create a Shopify data export with custom columns. We explain how to prepare your export profile, replace the default column names with custom names, create a custom column order, and delete unnecessary columns from export.  Continue Reading

Advanced Shopify Import: Gift Cards

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Shopify Import: Gift Cards

In the following article, you will learn how to import gift cards to Shopify. First, we explain how to transfer gift card products to your e-commerce website. If you need to move multiple gift cards to your storefront, consider a bulk transfer a suitable option. You will mass import gift cards to Shopify within just a few clicks. 

After that, we focus on another aspect –  the transfer of actual Shopify gift cards. What’s the difference between a gift card and a gift card product? You will also find the answer below. So, let’s go get Shopify gift cards imported.  Continue Reading

How to Archive Orders in Shopify

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Below, we explain how to archive orders in Shopify. You will learn how to create a zip archive with your orders for more efficient storage or management. 

When you export Shopify orders with the platform’s default tools, they are gathered in a CSV file. But what if a Shopify archive with orders is required? 

You will need the Import & Export Tool to archive orders in Shopify. Furthermore, our app lets you automate this process, archive only the latest modified orders, or pack only orders with a specific status into a zip. We detailly describe all these aspects below. Continue Reading

How to Manage Products in Shopify: Reorder Variants

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How to Bulk Update Shopify Product SKUs

In the following article, we explore how to reorder variants in Shopify. You will learn two different techniques: one for solo editing and another one for bulk product updates. If you deal with a few products, choose the first way. If you need to update the entire catalog, go with the second option. Below, we explain the principal difference between the two of them opportunities so that you can reorder variants in Shopify in a manner that suits your business well. Continue Reading

Shopify Bulk Inventory Update: Adjust Your Product Information With Ease

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How to Bulk Update Shopify Product SKUs

Today, we’d like to draw your attention to Shopify bulk inventory updates. This guide is useful for everyone except Shopify dropshippers who don’t need to adjust Shopify inventory quantity regularly. So, do you know how to update inventory in Shopify? Of course, you do. Importing a CSV with the corresponding data to your e-commerce website is necessary. However, this simple approach doesn’t work every time. What if you need to import the quantity adjustment of the Shopify product inventory by importing the delta – the difference that should be added to the existing product quantity? By default, your e-commerce website will understand the provided number as the new quantity that should be used instead of the one recorded in a database, which is a disaster. In this article, you will learn how to avoid this unpleasant situation by letting your store know whether to import the new inventory quantity instead of the one available in your database; or combine both values.   Continue Reading

Shopify Security Checklist for Safe Import Processes

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Importing data to Shopify may be difficult. In some situations, it may even cause issues that negatively impact customer experience. For instance, you may transfer wrong information or update your store only partially, causing various inconveniences for your customers. This Shopify security checklist, however, can help you reduce such risks. Before you import any data to Shopify, ask yourself the questions from this article. They will help you ensure your data import is safe. Let’s enhance your Shopify website security together. Continue Reading

How to Bulk Update Shopify Product SKUs

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How to Bulk Update Shopify Product SKUs

Having multiple products on your online storefront is often associated with extended e-commerce opportunities and, at the same time, headaches. Especially when you need to update Shopify product SKUs.

By default, the system doesn’t let you apply changes to your catalog items in bulk. You need to do that manually on a per-product basis. The more products you have in Shopify, the more time and effort you need to spend. With the Import & Export Tool, however, you can easily bulk update your product SKUs. So, let’s take a look at how to update your Shopify product SKUs in bulk. Continue Reading

Shopify Order Line Item Properties: How to Add Additional Line Item Information

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In the following article, we shed light on Shopify order line item properties. We explore properties available in Shopify’s standard export procedure and then compare them to a third-party output based on the Import & Export Tool. You will learn how to add additional line item information for orders in Shopify which is often necessary if you provide this data to a third party, such as an ERP system, for further processing. But let’s first see what an order line item is. Continue Reading

How to Back up Shopify with Automation & Schedules

- Our extensions, Shopify

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Backing up a Shopify store is an essential routine that helps prevent huge issues if something goes wrong with your e-commerce website. You create a store’s copy that can be easily restored in an emergency. The good news is that you can do that even with the default export tools built into the platform. The bad news is that it may take a considerable amount of time if you do that regularly. Therefore, we’d like to share a better way to back up Shopify. The one that incorporated the Import & Export Tool. With the help of this app, you can create Shopify backups automatically following the preconfigured schedule. Below, we explain how to create a backup of Shopify’s most important elements: products, customers, and orders. You will learn how to create schedules to automate this process. Also, we explain how to restore Shopify backups afterward. Continue Reading

Banggood Shopify Integration: Your Easiest Way To Dropshipping

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Banggood Shopify Integration with Improved Import & Export

Dropshipping is a great way to run an e-commerce website without having to manage stock. Focus on marketing and let Banggood specialists handle logistics, while your Shopify website thrives. Dropshipping with Banggood on Shopify provides you with access to more than 250,000 amazing products at competitive prices, 10 warehouses, and a very well-organized logistic infrastructure. Below, we explain how to implement the Banggood Shopify integration from the perspective of data exchanges. You will learn how to link Banggood to Shopify by importing a product feed to your website and exporting orders back. If you are new to dropshipping or want to expand your e-commerce business, you’ve come to the right place.  Continue Reading