There may be cases where your supplier uses a different SKU or barcode from what you use in your Shopify store.  Using Shopify Variant Metafields is a good way to track these. With this EZ Inventory update, you now have the option to map product variants in your Shopify store to products in your suppliers' feeds based on a custom variant metafield's value.

In the Data Feed settings, you can find this option under Field Mapping > Shopify Variant Field.  Select the …

JSON data feed format is now supported in EZ Inventory!

This allows you to upload a JSON file or use a web feed/REST API endpoint that returns JSON data as a data source when updating the inventory quantity of products/variants in your Shopify store.

The JSON data just needs to have a list of products and you can specify the specific key that contains this data in the app.  If the data structure has a variants subfield, our app can …

We've recently pushed an update to our EZ Inventory Shopify app which allows our users to specify additional HTTP headers when pulling their product/inventory feeds.

A use case that came up was when one of our customer's supplier feed recently made a change to their website to require a 'User-Agent' header before the web request is accepted.  So having this option took care of the issue.

There are other use cases where being able to specify a custom header could come …

In addition to using date and time variables in the file paths, EZ Inventory also now supports a wildcard variable (asterisk "*" character) when retrieving an inventory feed file from an FTP or SFTP server.

This allows our users to specify which inventory file to use based on a partial match in the filename.  This could really come in handy for files that include a full timestamp in the filename (e.g. stock_20230205_175132.csv).

For example, a merchant might want to update …

EZ Inventory has supported date and time variables in the filename/file paths, URLs, and filters for some time now.  You can use the variables {{ YYYY }}, {{ MM }}, {{ DD }}, and {{ HH }}.

We've encountered a few cases where these aren't enough, however.  So we've added a new variable called {{ current_datetime }} which extends this functionality further.  With this new variable, you can include additional parameters to specify more advanced formatting, add or subtract days, and overwrite the …