Preparing Entities for Synchronization: Updating Product Details

Before you export stock items and non-stock items to the online store, you might want to specify commerce-related settings that are specific to a particular product or specify commerce-related information.

If the Retail Commerce feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form, the eCommerce tab appears on the Stock Items (IN202500) and Non-Stock Items (IN202000) forms. On this tab, you can specify the settings that are applied to the items exported from MYOB Advanced to the BigCommerce store. The settings you specify on this tab for a particular item override the default settings specified on the BigCommerce Stores (BC201000) form.

For each stock or non-stock item, on the eCommerce tab, you can define the following:

• The visibility of the product in the online store.

  You define visibility by selecting the appropriate option in the Visibility box: Visible to make the product visible on the storefront, Invisible to hide it from customers, or Featured to make the product visible and add it to the Featured sales category.

• The availability assigned to the item when it is exported to the online store.

  You define the availability of the item by selecting the needed option in the Availability box. You select Store Default to apply the availability option selected in the store settings to be used by default for exported products. To make the product available and not track its quantity, you select Set as Available (Don't Track Qty.). If you want to make the product available for pre-order, you select Set as Pre-Order. To make the product unavailable after import, you select Set as Unavailable. For a stock item whose quantity you want to track, you select Set as Available (Track Qty.).

  For stock items whose availability is tracked (that is, for the items for which the Availability is set to Set as Available (Track Qty.)), you can also specify what action should be performed if the item runs out of stock. To do this, you select in the When Qty. Unavailable box one of the following options:

  • Store Default: To apply the default value configured in the store settings
  • Do Nothing: To not perform any action
  • Set as Unavailable: To make the item unavailable for purchase in the online store
  • Set as Pre-Order: To change the item's availability to Pre-Order
• The custom URL of the product page in the online store.

  You specify the custom URL of the product page in the Custom URL box.

  By default, product URLs are generated in the BigCommerce store automatically, based on the URL generation rules configured in the Product URL Settings section on the Store Settings page in the control panel of your BigCommerce store. The URL specified in the Custom URL box, when the product is exported, is copied into the Product URL box in the Search Engine Optimization section of the View Products page of for the product. The URL in the Product URL box overrides the automatically generated URL.

• The title of the product page.

  You can specify the title of the product page in the Page Title box. After the product is imported to the BigCommerce store, the text you have specified in this box is copied into the Page Title box in the Search Engine Optimization section of the View Products page for the product. This text is used in the <title> tag in the HTML code of the product page.

• Search keywords.

  You specify the keywords and search terms that are relevant to the item in the Search Keywords box. Search keywords are used when a customer searches from within the online store.

• Meta keywords.

  You specify meta keywords in the Meta Keywords box. Meta keywords are included in the <meta> tag in the HTML code of the product page.

• Meta description.

  You specify the meta description in the Meta Description box. After the product is imported into the BigCommerce store, the meta description you have specified in this box will be displayed in the Meta Description box in the Search Engine Optimization section of the View Products page for the product. The meta description is included in the <meta> tag in the HTML code of the product page.