We've been on a roll with updates lately. :)

Below is a list of updates we've pushed out this month to our EZ Exporter app.

Option to overwrite files in Google Drive

In the Export Profile settings, when selecting "Google Drive" as the export destination, you'll now see a new option to overwrite the file if it exists.

Please note that our app can only overwrite files that were originally created by our app.

Please see this blog post for more details. …

We've just added a new function called join_lists() to our EZ Exporter app.

This new function will allow you to combine values from two separate lists where you can specify a separator between values and also between group of values.

For example, you might have the following lists of values on your Shopify store:

# Lineitem Tax Lines - Titles (line_items.tax_lines.title)
NY State Tax,New York County Tax,New York Municipal Tax

# Lineitem Tax Lines - Rates (line_items.tax_lines.rate)
0.04,0.00375,0.045

Using the join_lists() …

We've just pushed an update to EZ Exporter to allow our users to overwrite a file in Google Drive if it has the same filename. 

Google Drive allows duplicate filenames so if you have automated exports scheduled to run with a static filename, you can end up with a lot of files in your folder with identical names.  This update solves this issue by providing an option to overwrite a file if it already exists in the folder.

Please note …

Below is a list of smaller updates we've pushed this month to our Shopify data export app, EZ Exporter.

New field: total_tip_received

Shopify added an online tipping option for web orders last month, which merchants can add to the checkout page. This option used to be only available through Shopify POS.

In EZ Exporter, you can now select a field called total_tip_received. This field is also available in the Custom Filters and the Grouping and Aggregation sections in the …

We've just pushed a small update to our EZ Exporter app to allow our users to back up specific Export Profiles and Data Settings which can be restored to another Shopify store.

Previously, we only had options to back up all Export Profiles and/or all Data Settings, which works fine in many cases where a Shopify merchant needs to duplicate export templates from one store to another.

However, we've gotten a request recently from one of our customers who just needs to …