Shopify - Export information

Overview of Shopify product data which is considered for the Findologic XML export.

Summary

Item	Short Description	In export	Reason
<item id="">	Product id	Yes
<ordernumbers>	SKU	Yes
<name>	Product title	Yes
<summaries>	Summarized product description	No	Not available
<description>	Product description	Yes
<prices>	Product price	Yes
<urls>	URL to the product page	Yes
<images>	Product images and thumbnails	Yes
<keywords>	Product tags	Yes
<usergroups>	Visibility of article, i.e. only visible to the exported usergroups	No	Not available
<bonuses>	Bonus value to rank certain products higher than others	No	Not available
<salesfrequency>	Amount of sold items of this article	No	Not available
<dateAdded>	Create date of product	Yes
<sorts>	Value for custom sorting of search results	No	Not available
<attributes>	Product type, vendor, options, named tags and meta-fields. Will be filters.	Yes
<properties>	Prices min/max/compare, named tags, variant data, media and meta-fields	Yes

Item

A product must be active in order to get exported.

The ID is visible in the url when editing a product in the Shopify backend.

https://<STORE_NAME>.myshopify.com/admin/products/<ID>.

Ordernumbers

The SKU is exported as ordernumber.

Name

The product title is exported as name.

Description

The product description is exported as description.

Prices

The lowest price of all variants gets exported as price.

Urls

Product urls as generated by Shopify.

Images

For each image, the original and thumbnail url is exported.

Keywords

Tags are exported as keywords.

Dateadded

Stored created_at date of product.

Attributes

List of values exported as attributes:

Product type
Vendor
Named tags
Collections
Variant options
Meta fields with namespace findologic-attr

Product type, vendor, collections and named tags

Values in the right box are exported as attributes. Please also see Add filters with named tags.

Variant options

All options on variants are exported as attributes.

Meta fields with namespace findologic-attr

You can use various apps to create meta fields in Shopify. Add a key and value to a meta field and assign it to the namespace findologic-attr

Attribute keys vendor, product_type, cat_url and cat are exported by default and can't be set with meta-fields

Properties

List of values exported as properties:

Product media
Prices min/max/compare
Named tags
Variant data
Meta fields with namespace findologic-prop

Product media, prices min/max and named tags

Product media (images and videos), minimum + maximum price of all variants and named tags are exported as properties. Please also see Add filters with named tags.

Compare at price

The minimum compare at price of all variants is exported as property.

Variant data

For Direct Integration the variant data gets exported as property in JSON format.

Example

{
  "<VARIANT-ID>": {
    "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid://shopify/ProductVariant/<VARIANT-ID>",
    "barcode": "",
    "compare_at_price": 60.0,
    "created_at": "2021-02-10T01:16:58-05:00",
    "grams": 0,
    "id": <VARIANT-ID>,
    "image_id": null,
    "inventory_item_id": <INVENTORY-ITEM-ID>,
    "inventory_policy": "deny",
    "inventory_quantity": 49,
    "option1": "Cotton",
    "option2": null,
    "option3": null,
    "position": 1,
    "price": 58.0,
    "requires_shipping": false,
    "sku": "1234",
    "taxable": true,
    "title": "Cotton",
    "updated_at": "2021-03-04T01:55:45-05:00",
    "weight": 0.0,
    "weight_unit": "g"
  }
}

Meta fields with namespace findologic-prop

You can use various apps to create meta fields in Shopify. Add a key and value to a meta field and assign it to the namespace findologic-prop

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