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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

How to Automate Magento 2 Import & Export

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

improved import and export - Magento 2 extension

We have very good news for you: it’s no longer necessary to import/export files to/from Magento 2 manually. And below we explain how to automate Magento 2 import and export processes. Check this post and you will find out how to save tons of time and effort making your daily routine fully automated.

Of course, you need a third-party extension to achieve your goal. And we recommend you to use the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension, since the Magento 2 Open Source platform doesn’t add any automation to import/export processes. As a result, you have to perform each run manually, but before diving deep into the nature of our solution, let’s tell a few words about the automation itself. Continue Reading

How to Export Magento 2 Products, Orders, & Customers to Custom Data Format

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 Product Import Export Tutorial

Chances are, you not only have to import data to your store on a regular basis, but to export products, orders, or customers as well. It is often necessary to create custom export files to match the requirements of third-party platforms that use your ecommerce data, but default Magento 2 doesn’t provide any customization tools. Therefore, you have two ways to solve the problem: spend hours or even days customizing everything manually, or apply mapping and get the desired results within seconds automatically. The choice is obvious, so let’s focus on how to export Magento 2 products, orders, and customers to custom data format using mapping. Continue Reading

How to Import Products File Which Cannot Be Modified to Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 Product Import Export Tutorial

Unfortunately, this happens quite often: you get a custom file with information about products that must be imported into Magento 2, but it is impossible to modify it according to platform requirements. You still need the important product data to be added to your ecommerce database, but the imported file doesn’t match Magento 2 standards. If a file is small, you can create a new one on it’s basis manually, but what if it includes dozens or even hundreds of items or it is just impossible to get it to apply changes manually? How to import products file which cannot be modified to Magento 2? Below, we shed light on this problem. Continue Reading