Mapping Shopify Fields

Required field for mapping with Plytix and unique identifier in Shopify. 

Example: "rover-14-backpack"

Create a dedicated field for your Shopify handles using a short text attribute.

If you have multiple stores, you can create a handle for each store. 

If a handle for a product is empty in Plytix, it will create a new product in Shopify and sync the new handle value automatically back to the PIM.

Handles are created automatically by Shopify from the product's "title" field.

Required field

Example: "Rover 14 Backpack"

A product description that supports HTML

Example: "A lightweight 14L backpack perfect for the back country."

A categorization for the product used for filtering and searching products.

Example: "Sport Backpack"

This tells Shopify if your product is ready to sell, not ready yet or is not available to your customers anymore. 

Accepted values: 

active

draft

archived

Example: "active"

Match with a dropdown that has the accepted values. 

You can also use a computed attribute to transform your Plytix "Status" attribute into an acceptable format (without the archived option):

DLOOKUP($STATUS, {"Draft": "draft","Completed": "active"},"draft")

A string of comma-separated tags that are used for filtering and search.

A product can have up to 250 tags.

Each tag can have up to 255 characters.

Example: "14L,Board Bag,Hydration"

Match with your categories or a multiselect attribute type. 

The main image and visual identifier of your product.

Matching this will ensure each product and variation has a unique featured image. 

Images associated with the product

This will add products to a manual collection in Shopify.

Example: "Best Sellers"

The name of the product's vendor

Example: "Nitro"

Match with a short text or dropdown attribute type

You can also create a computed attribute with a string value defined

The date and time (ISO 8601 format) when the product was published.

Can be set to null to unpublish the product from the Online Store channel.

Example: "2007-12-31T19:00:00-05:00"

Match with a date attribute type.

Leave the date blank to send a null value.

Whether the product is published to the Point of Sale channel.

Accepted values:

web

global

web: The product is published to the Online Store channel but not published to the Point of Sale channel.

global: The product is published to both the Online Store channel and the Point of Sale channel.

Example: "web"

The custom product property names like Size, Color, and Material. You can add up to 3 options.

Example: "Size"

Match with a short text or dropdown attribute. 

You can also create a computed attribute with a string value defined.

The custom product property values that match the names like Size, Color, and Material. These values can be up to 255 characters each.

Example: "M/L"

The barcode, UPC, or ISBN number for the product.

Example: "1234_pink"

Match with a short text or the Plytix "GTIN" attribute

The original price of the item before an adjustment or a sale.

Example: "299.00"

Match with an integer or decimal attribute type. 

You can also create a computed attribute for special price configurations.

The fulfillment service associated with the product variant.

Accepted values:

manual

or the handle of a fulfillment service.

Example:"manual"

The weight of the product variant in grams.

Example: 567

Match with an integer or decimal attribute type. 

You can also create a computed attribute to convert another weight unit into grams.

The unique identifier for the inventory item, which is used in the Inventory API to query for inventory information.

Example: 342916

The fulfillment service that tracks the number of items in stock for the product variant.

Accepted values:

shopify

null

enabled

or the handle of a fulfillment service

shopify: You are tracking inventory yourself using the admin.

null: You aren't tracking inventory on the variant.

enabled: This must be the same fulfillment service referenced by the fulfillment_service property.

Example: null

Whether customers are allowed to place an order for the product variant when it's out of stock.

Accepted values:

deny

continue

deny: Customers are not allowed to place orders for the product variant if it's out of stock. (default)

continue: Customers are allowed to place orders for the product variant if it's out of stock.

Example: "continue"

The price of the product variant

Example: "199.00"

Match with an integer or decimal attribute type. 

You can also create a computed attribute for special price configurations.

A unique identifier for the product variant in the shop.

Required in order to connect to a FulfillmentService.

Example: "NITROROVER14"

Whether a tax is charged when the product variant is sold.

Accepted values: 

true

false

Example: "true"

This field applies is only applicable to  stores that have the Avalara AvaTax app installed. This specifies the Avalara tax code for the product variant

Example: "DA040000"

The weight of the product variant in the unit system specified with weight_unit.

Example: 100

The unit of measurement that applies to the product variant's weight. If you don't specify a value for weight_unit, then the shop's default unit of measurement is applied.

Accepted values: 

g

kg

oz

lb

Example: oz