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 Shopify store. The settings you specify on this tab for a particular item override the default settings specified on the Shopify Stores (BC201010) 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.

  Note: Shopify does not support featuring products, so the third option, Featured, will make the product visible on the storefront (same as the Visible option).
• 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
• 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 Shopify store, the text you have specified in this box is copied into the Page title box in the Search engine listing preview section of the product management page. This text is used in the <title> 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 to the Shopify store, the meta description you have specified in this box will be displayed in the Description box in the Search engine listing preview section of the product management page. The meta description is included in the <meta> tag in the HTML code of the product page.