As a Shopify merchant, you probably already know that when you perform a CSV export of your products via the Shopify Admin, the product description will include all the HTML tags in the data. Our EZ Exporter app can easily strip these out.

However, there may be more complex cases where you need to go even a step further, where you need to extract specific product attributes that were entered directly in the HTML product description in Shopify. You …

We've recently pushed an update to EZ Exporter to allow our users to reference Shopify Metafields in the Custom Fields and Calculated Fields sections of the app.

EZ Exporter has supported exporting metafields for a long time now, but it was limited to mapping each metafield value to a custom column in their CSV/Excel exports.

With this update, users of our app can extend that functionality by allowing them to combine the metafield values with other built-in Shopify field values …

When generating a CSV/Excel export of your Shopify data to be sent to third parties such as a supplier or another platform, the recipient may require the content of certain fields to be formatted in a certain way.

For example, some systems may require fields such as the shipping address to include only official abbreviations. There may also be cases where the system receiving the data only supports ASCII characters and if your customer base is global, you'll most likely …

When you export your Shopify product data to CSV, you'll notice that it will export the product description with HTML code included in a field called "Body (HTML)."

If you plan to use this product CSV in other platforms such as for a Facebook Product Feed or Google Shopping Feed, you'd normally want the HTML tags removed as those platforms either won't render them or won't allow them at all. You'd want the product description to be in plain text. …

When we launched EZ Exporter almost 3 years ago now, it started out as a simple Shopify order exporter app. It only supported CSV format and delivering the exported file to an email address and an FTP/SFTP server.

We've added a lot of features to EZ Exporter since then. In addition to exporting Shopify order data, the app also now supports exporting collections, customers, draft orders, and products. We've also added integrations with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon S3. And …