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 …

EZ Inventory has supported using formulas for inventory quantity updates for quite some time now.  This allowed our users to use conditional logic and other data manipulation against their supplier feed's data when updating the quantity in Shopify.

We've just pushed an update to extend this functionality for mapping items from their supplier's feed to product variants in their Shopify store.  This option is now available in the Data Feed settings:

Since most merchants don't have the option to modify or customize …

EZ Inventory requires a header row as the very first row when processing CSV or Excel data feeds.

The header row is needed for mapping fields, filtering the data, and also for creating quantity formulas.

We've seen a few cases from merchants, however, where their supplier's feed doesn't have a header row and it's not possible for them to add it (possibly due to legacy systems or just other complexities in their process). 

This new option to create a "virtual" header row …