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How the price_inherited Field Simplifies Variant Pricing Import in Shopware 6

- Shopware

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Managing prices across parent and variant products is one of the recurring challenges in Shopware 6 catalogs, especially when dealing with numerous variations and frequent pricing updates. In many stores, variants unintentionally accumulate outdated, inconsistent, or manually modified prices that no longer align with the parent product’s intended pricing structure.

To solve this, the Improved Import & Export Tool for Shopware 6 introduces a new field: price_inherited. This feature helps merchants enforce clean, consistent pricing by ensuring that variant products automatically inherit pricing from their parent.

This article explains how price_inherited works, why it matters, and how to use it effectively. Continue Reading

Shopware 6 Product Export Guide: How to Filter Parent and Variant Products Efficiently

- Shopware

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Managing product exports in Shopware 6 can quickly become complex — especially for merchants working with large catalogs that include hundreds or thousands of parent–variant combinations. Whether you need to export only parent products for a marketplace feed, extract only variants for a pricing update, or isolate variants of a specific configurable product, our improved filtering options make these tasks significantly easier.

This guide explains how Shopware 6 parent/variant filtering works, how to configure export profiles correctly, common use cases, and important limitations to keep in mind. You’ll also find best-practice recommendations and troubleshooting tips to help ensure clean and consistent export files every time.

This article is based on the new parent/variant export features available in the Shopware import/export app. Continue Reading

Automatic Parent Product Creation: Smarter Shopify Imports for Cleaner Catalogs

- Shopify

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Shopify product imports can be extremely painful and time-consuming when the update file doesn’t contain parent products. If you work with large or complex catalogs, you know how challenging it can be to import such product data, especially when it only contains variant information. In many supplier feeds or marketplace exports, you’ll see entries for each size, color, or configuration, but no single parent (main) product to tie them together.

Until now, this meant manual editing, restructuring, and constant rework just to ensure the import process succeeded. But with our new Automatic Parent Product Creation feature, those days are over. Below, we explore the new functionality of the Improved Import & Export app for Shopify. Continue Reading

How to Export Simple Products With Their Parent Product Relations in Magento 2

- Magento 2, Our extensions

Let’s suppose, you need to export products from Magento 2. Your catalog contains a couple of simple products associated with a few parent products each. By default, it is quite hard to export these items and keep their parent relations in the exported data table. However, you can fix that with the help of the Improved Import & Export module. In the following article, we shed light on how to use the extension to export simple products from Magento 2 along with the information about their parent products. Follow our Developer’s Cookbook for more tips like this. Continue Reading