We've just added RSA private key authentication to EZ Exporter for SFTP/SSH connections. This authentication method provides extra security compared to regular passwords as SSH keys are much longer, making brute-force attacks pretty much impossible.

One of our customers requested it as one of their partners who they send their data to requires it to authenticate to their SFTP servers. I'm actually quite happy to see more users using SFTP vs regular FTP which is insecure by default.

To use …

We've recently added 2 new functions which can be used in the formulas of our app, EZ Exporter. These functions could come in handy for fields such as tags where you may need to filter them based on specific values.

to_list(data, separator=",")

Convert text data into a list/array.

For example, a tags field data may look something like this: "men, xxl, sale"

Applying this function like this:

to_list({{ tags }})

Will return this result: ['men', 'xxl', 'sale']

This is …

We've just pushed an update to EZ Exporter to allow our users to be able to re-download files that were previously generated within our app. Note that this feature is currently only available to users subscribed to the Professional or Premium plans.

We have our systems set up to keep a temporary backup of all exported files. Professional plan subscribers can re-download those files generated within the last 30 days and 90 days for Premium plan subscribers.

A few use …

We've recently pushed an update to EZ Exporter to support the following additional custom filter conditions:

• is equal to any
• is not equal to any

These new filter conditions allow for additional flexibility when filtering your Shopify data. This essentially provides a way to combine AND and OR conditional logic to your data filters.

For example, one of our customers needed to filter their CSV reports with something like this:

Shipping Country Code is equal to US
AND
Lineitem Name …

We've recently pushed an update to our Shopify app EZ Exporter to allow our users to export their Shopify Colelctions data.

When exporting products or orders, you will now see additional fields related to "smart collections" and "custom collections."

"Smart Collections" are basically the collections where you specify a rule or set of rules to automatically add products in those collections. "Custom Collections" are the collections where you've added the products manually.

Here's a sample of what these look like …