How to import products from your online store?

Vendors can now connect their Shopify stores directly to their Marketcube account and sync all the products available on their online store. This helps in streamlining the product upload as well as eliminating the need for manual product updates in the future, keeping product information, price and stock in sync between vendors store and the marketplace in real time basis.

Note: The steps shown in this article use Shopify as an example, but the process is the same for other live-connected platforms such as Wix and Woo Commerce.

Steps for importing products from live-connected store: 

1. To enable this functionality, vendor need to navigate to the Products section, which can be accessed from the main navigation menu or dashboard, as shown below in the screenshot

Once in the Products section, they should select "Add Products" to proceed.

2. On the "Add Products", screen From the dropdown select 'Import products by connecting to a Shopify store' option.

Note:- Here, we are demonstrating the process using a Shopify store

3.Then a vendor needs to add their store name/URL and click on the 'connect' button.

4. Vendor will then be asked to login to their Shopify store. Refer this article for the Live-connect process - Vendor Live Connect for Shopify.

Once this is done a vendor will be brought back to the add product screen and see their store connected. 

5. Once a vendor connects their store, they have the option to either automatically push all products to the marketplace or manually select specific ones. To manually select products, the vendor should go to the "Products" section, click on the "Shopify Products" list (as shown below), and choose the items they wish to publish. 

Once this is done a marketplace operator will see the products and be able to approve and publish them. For all approved products any changes made in a vendor's store will automatically sync to the marketplace for the marketplace operator to review.

6. Once the vendor accesses their Shopify product listing page, they have to proceed to sync the products to the main product listing page.

There are two ways to do this:

Bulk Sync:

Select all products by ticking the checkbox at the top of the list, then choose ""Sync Products"" from the Action dropdown.

Manual Sync:

If the vendor prefers to sync products individually, they can navigate to each product, click on the Manage dropdown on the far right, and select "Sync."

Note:

• A marketplace operator can choose whether they want the changes to be auto approved.
• In the above article, we have demonstrated by assuming it as a Shopify store. In the same way, products can be imported from the other available live-connect options.

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